Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leave to inform the students of Harvard College that I have recently bought the picture-taking establishment No. 363 Washington street, Boston, and respectfully solicit their patronage. X. Teillard...
...leave to inform the students of Harvard College that I have recently bought the picture-taking establishment No. 363 Washington street, Boston, and respectfully solicit their patronage. X. Teillard...
...Catholic or American University is to be located at Washington, D. C. The endowment now in sight is nearly $1,000,000. The founders will not be content with a support insufficient to produce an income of from $300,000 to $400,000; which is the aggregate outgo for any one of the leading universities of England or Germany. The work intended in science, especially in chemistry, engineering and abstruse mathematics, will be abreast with that done in the eading German universities...
...argument for dress, more hereafter. That concerning the "speech" appears to our provincial judgment both a novel and unwarranted assumption. True, we are not a nation of jeunes premiers, but there have been musical voices in our land and history. The voices of Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, proclaiming the sovereignty of simple manhood had a sweetness and musical cadence which still makes melody upon our People's lips. The tones of these men are the models after which our accents are framed, and their music, I take it, needs not the tawdry finery of affectation...
...college government and undergraduate conduct, sarcasm, good and bad taste, mighty phillipics, extravagant "swipes," are as prevalent there as here. There seems to be, however, a tendency towards meddling with politics, national or local. The little journal swells out enormously, and disagrees most decidedly with a recent appointment at Washington, or thinks that the city had better "begin work on the grading" of such and such a street as soon as possible. The current number contains its Thanksgiving editorial, and the reader almost sees the enthusiastic editor devouring the famous morsels of turkey, with eyes dilated, face jovial, and lips...