Word: whig
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American Whig and Cliosophic Society of Princeton has challenged the Yale Union to a joint debate to be held sometime during the winter. If satisfactory arrangements can be made the debate will probably take place in New York on some day in February...
...order of exercises for the day was was as follows: 9 o'clock, graduation exercises of the John C. Green School of Science; 11 o'clock, the annual meeting of the Clio and Whig societies, and the dedication of their new halls; 1.30 o'clock, Alumni dinner at the University Hall; 4.30 o'clock, laying the corner stone of the Isabella McCosh Infirmary, with an address by Rev. George B. Stewart, of Harrisburg, Pa.; from 5 to 6 o'clock, an open air concert and promenade on the President's grounds; 7.30 o'clock, prize debate between representatives...
...buildings of the Cliosophic and American Whig Societies of Princeton College were dedicated on Tuesday. The former society was organized by Oliver Ellsworth, William Pattison and Luther Martin in 1765, and the latter in the same year by James Madison. The work of the organizations is mainly literary. The new buildings, which have cost $50,000, were begun...
...Fairbanks, of the Mansfield College, Oxford, England; W. W. Farnam '66; Walter Camp '80; Professor A. B. Hart, of Harvard University; Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin '61, President of the American Bar Association; Hon. Frederick T. Dubois '72, U. S. Senator from Idaho; Bowdre Plumizv, President of Whig Hall, Princeton; Professor A. M. Wheeler...
When William of Orange came to England, he undertook to carry on his administration by having members of both the great political parties in his councils. The result was not satisfactory. Then he called about him the members of the Whig party because, whatever their short-comings, they were at least united on the point of sustaining him in the wars against France. This move proved entirely successful. However it was many years before the full scope and meaning of the system of government by parties were understood in England. Sir Robert Walpole when he became prime minister, gave...