Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laws against bribery are greatly strained at each presidential election owing to the system of an electoral college, in which at present one doubtful state, New York, casts the deciding vote. Bribery naturally is the order of the day in such a state of affairs, and the only remedy is to do away with the electoral college and to substitute some other system of election: say a division of electoral votes in each state according to the number of votes cast by each party...
...following is the schedule of the Yale freshman eleven for the remainder of the season: November 16, Columbia Grammar School, at New York; November 20, Berkeley Lyceum at the Field; November 30, Harvard freshmen, at New Haven...
...college conference meeting to be held this evening in Sever promises to be one of marked interest both in the topic for consideration and in the speaker who will open the discussion. Mr. Richard H. Dana, of New York, is to address the students on the subject of Reforms in Political Methods, and how to bring them about. The subject will of course be approached from a non-partisan point of view, and Mr. Dana's great familiarity with political affairs cannot fail to make the meeting both interesting and instructive. It may be well to add, for the sake...
...number of schools and colleges in which the graduates find opportunities for work is increasing every year. Several have found positions in New York city, and it is doubtless in some degree owing to that fact that the number of candidates for the Harvard examinations for women in that city has materially increased...
...corporation a gift of $50,000 was received for the purpose of founding a chair in Bibilical Literature in the Academic Department in memory of the late ex-President Woolsey, the professorship in it to be named after him. Through the generosity of Mr. Sloane of New York, who has already done much for Yale, a new Scholarship has been presented to the University for the promotion of studies in physics...