Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon the House committees, which, in reality, are the potent factors in our national legislation. After gaining from this work some slight comprehension of our legislative system, one is not surprised at the recent remarks of President-elect Cleveland. Said he to a congressman, "How are you gentlmen at Washington getting on?" "Oh," said the congressman, "pretty well." "I don't think so." said Cleveland, quite emphatically. "Congress doesn't work expeditiously. Its rules are simply abomnible...
Another picture of Washington has been hung in Memorial Hall. It is a copy by Crumidi of Peale's Washington that hangs in the President's room at the Capital, and comes from the estate of Henry W. Longfellow...
...Columbian University of Washington has decided to admit women to the study of medicine, with the same privileges accorded...
Perfectly ignorant of practical astronomy, he insisted on the aperture of his telescope being at least forty inches, which would admit twice as much light as the great Washington telescope, which, at that time, had just been completed. To build a telescope of such dimensions was a tremendous undertaking. Agents travelled through Europe visiting the most noted firms in England, France and Germany, without finding one which was willing to undertake the contract of making the glass disks from which the objectives must be made. At last, in 1880, a contract was made with Feil of Paris, for an objective...
...disclaim any intention of doing injustice to anyone, and are happy to take this opportunity of placing the Washington Harvard Club in its true position before the college...