The American Commonwealth reviewed by a British critic
James Bryce’s The American Commonwealth is praised for its deep grasp of American government and society. The reviewer notes Bryce’s strong use of common law concepts, detailed analysis of national and state powers, local government, and political parties, while offering some cautions about length, repetition, and certain overstatements on state interference.
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American Commonwealth
United States
Bryce
von Holst
England
Parliament
Supreme Court
Congress
Canada
Switzerland
Washington
House of Representatives
President
Senate
Europe
New England
Middle States
America
New York
Frank J. Goodnow
Philadelphia
Dennis Kearney
California
Mr. Bryce
Wall Street
West
Inquisition
Venice
Paul Veronese
Magdalen
Atlantic
James Bryce
Holy Roman Spire
Aberdeen
London
Macmillan & Co
Civil Service Reform Speech by Carl Schurz at Commonwealth Club
Carl Schurz spoke on civil service reform at the Commonwealth Club dinner in New York. He argued reform is essential to save good government, urging disciplined appointments and opposition to spoilsman influence amid the Harrison era debates.
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Commonwealth Club of
New York
Carl Schurz
Schurz
Mr. Schurz
Commonwealth Club
Harrison
Lappanne
Cleveland
Congress
peStlgh
Harvard Crimson launches library lighting petition drive
The Crimson reports renewed student and faculty push to light Harvard College library at night. A company wide circular asks professors and students to sign a petition to the corporation, urging electric lights for evening study. Also listed are January scholarship awards and student leadership changes at Harvard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crimson Board
Cambridge
the Crimson
Harvard College
Harvard University
Ephors Crimson
Adams
Commons
L. H. Davis
H. H. Harris
Moore
Bigelow
Spurr
Tryon
Matthews
Coburn
K. G. Loring
Harvard Lacrosse Association
F. Tudor
H. S. Potter, Jr
Where Reporters Go To
In fifteen years of guild observation reporters split into many paths. Roles include two theatrical assistants, actors, several playwrights, authors, eleven prominent politicians, a college professor, lawyers, newspaper owners, press agents, and editors. About seventy-three reporters are counted, with forty-five remaining in the field in various capacities. Additional critics were formerly reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ep.c
John Davenport
Merriman
Hendrix
Brooklyn
D. S
Massachusetts Electoral College Meets at State House
The Massachusetts Electoral College convened at the State House with ex Governor Robinson as president and Judge Henry J. Wells as secretary. Eleven electors attended, Elisha Morgan being ill. Edward Rogers of Springfield received a certificate of election for President and Vice President. The body adjourned to 11 a.m. Monday after a formal address on the constitutional role of electors.
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Massachusetts Electoral College
State House
Robinson
Chicopee
Henry J. Wells
Cambridge
Elisha Morgan
Twelfth
Edward ©. Rogers
Springfield
Senate
William F. Draper
Tissaukte
Halsey J. Boardman
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
United States
Congress
American Union
Charles Q. Tirrell
Natick
Morgan
Rogers
Ames
General Draper
Algonquin Club
Somerville Postoffice Move Sparks Local Protests
Residents of Somerville especially around Union square oppose moving the post office from the Hill building to a new Somerville avenue site. They argue the lease terms are unfair and allege conflicts of interest while noting the new facility offers doubled space, steam heat, and electric lighting at a $1000 yearly rent.
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Somerville
Union Square
Hill
Somerville Avenue
Washington
Dawes
Senate
Mass
Department
William H. Flynn
General Corse
Congressman Hayden
General Banks
Flynn
J. J. Sheerin
Boynton
Sheerin
Obituary of Alexander T. McGill D D LL D Emeritus Professor
Alexander T. McGill D D LL D emeritus professor of ecclesiastical homiletic and pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary died in Princeton New Jersey yesterday morning at eighty two. Born 1807 Cannonsburg Pennsylvania he graduated Jefferson College in 1826 with top honors. He joined Princeton Seminary faculty in 1854 retiring five years ago after becoming deaf. A prolific writer and former moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1848 he earned Princeton LL D in 1886. Funeral is set for 3 pm Wednesday from the Seminary Chapel Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander T. McGill
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton
N. J
McGill
Cannonsburgh
Washington County
Penn
Jefferson College
Pennsylvania
Princeton Seminary
Reverend Frederick N Knapp Dies in Plymouth
The Rev. Frederick N. Knapp, a prominent Plymouth resident, died suddenly of heart disease at his home. Born November 19, 1821 in Walpole New Hampshire he graduated Harvard College in 1843 and studied at Harvard divinity school. He served in Brookline as pastor before joining the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War and later led a military school in Englewood New Jersey. He founded a boys' home school at Sutton and became pastor of the First Parish Unitarian in Plymouth in 1869.
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F. N. Knapp
Frederick N. Knapp
Plymouth
Walpole
N. H
Harvard College
Thomas Hill
Portland
Harvard
Harvard Divinity School
Brookline
Sanitary Commission
Special Relief Department
Englewood
N. J
Sutton
Unitarian
Notable Deaths Include Lolt Morales and Torrearias
Surrogate Abraham Lolt of Kings County New York died yesterday of Brights disease at 60. The Havana despatch reports the death of Cuban historian scientist Senor Antonio Machillery Morales and the Countess O Reilly. London despatch says Italian statesman Marquis Di Torrearias died in his eighty first year.
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Abraham Lolt
Kings County
N. Y
Bright
Judge Lolt
Court of Appeals
Havana
Senor Antonio Machillery Morales
Countess O'Reilly
London
Marquis di Torrearias
Annual meeting of Association of Collegiate Alumnae elected officers
The Association of Collegiate Alumnae annual meeting was held in the Claflin room at Boston University. Officers elected include President Mrs Helen Hiscock Backus Vassar College Vice president Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer Michigan University Secretary Miss Marion Talbot Boston University Treasurer Miss Sarah L Day Vassar College and numerous directors from Smith Wellesley Boston University Wisconsin Michigan Syracuse Cornell Kansas and Vassar among others.
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Association of Collegiate Alumne
Claflin
Boston University
Helen Hiscock Backus
Vassar College
Alice Freeman Palmer
Michigan University
Marion ‘Talbot
Sarah L. Day
Annie E. Allen
Smith Colege
Alice V. Ames
Wellesley College
Charlotte C. Barrell
Smith College
Kate Stephens
Kansas University
Mary W. Whitney
Ida Wood
Electrical car halt blocks four streets after circuit failure
About 4 20 yesterday afternoon an electric car stalled when turning from Church into Boylston street as the circuit broke. It took over an hour to repair, blocking Boylston Dartmouth Church and Bea con streets. By 6 o'clock traffic began moving again and the blockade cleared.
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Church
Boylston Street
Boylston
Dartmouth
Beacon
Bribery, voting reforms and club meetings headline Saturday events
The Massachusetts Reform Club heard F J Stimson argue for election bribery evidence and sworn campaign expense reports. Boston groups including the Railroad and Steamboat Agents Association elected officers, hosted dinners, and discussed topics from metropolitan drainage to the Australian voting system.
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Massachusetts Reform Club
Parker’s
F. J. Stimson
J. S. of
Dale
Seciecy
Tausig
Harvard
J. G. Brooks
Railroad and Steamboat Agents’ Association
Young’s
S. W. Manning
Waldo A. Pearce
Charles A. Faxon
W.S. Condell
Seth Sprague
James B. Mills
John A. Ackley
W. I. Ruggles
A. ‘I’. Kimball
W. S. Ruggles
T. J. Hanley
H. G. Locke
G. O. Watkins
J. A. Danielson
W. W. Parsons
W. P. Sargent
B.D. Webber
Genepl L. White
Goddard
H. D. Simmons
F. R.A. H. Pride
G. E
George Fitch
N. P.R.R
William J. Bogart
Chicago & Alton
Brainard
H. P. Wolcott
Charles
Mystic River
Hugh O’brien
Samuel Winslow
Charles Pope
George E. Mitchell
Hart
Paint and Oil Club
D. F. Tyler
Dalton
FE. L. Molineaux
New York
John N. Partridge
George 8. Merrill
George A. Marden
K. Luyden
Pittsburg
Penn
John Carr
Boston Club
Rogers
Board of Aldermen
Allen
Common Council
Young's
Middlesex Club
Barrett
Norfolk Club
Burdett
Wardwell
Republican State Committee
Harriwell
Senate
Fisher
Weymouth
Russia
Fred H. Williams
H. A. Thomas
New England Club
Henry H. Sprague
Clover Club
Parker House
John H. Galligan
Frank L. Wells
D. L. Prendergast
W. F. Kennedy
Newton Club
Newtonville
Robert R. Bishop
William Claflin
Levi C. Wade
Henry E. Cobb
Lucius G. Pratt
Edward W. Cate
James W. French
Sidney Harwood
L. J. Calley
Austin R. Mitchell
George L. Lovell
C. W. Hall
Puritan Canoe Club
Vercelli’s
Francis J. Baxter
Charles F. Dodge
Joseph 8. Dean
Literary notices on canals, dictionaries and books of 1889
The piece previews Harper's Weekly on the Nicaragua Canal route and an Irish Boston history. It notes Scribner's February issue with Walter Scott at Work and Peveril of the Peak margins. The Century Dictionary, edited by W Whitney, plans six volumes and 6500 pages. It mentions Perry on Fayoum portraits, Ebers on dating, and White and the New Chapters in the Warfare of Science. Putnam announces Washington writings and other 1889 titles including Jusserand translations and Babelon antiquities work translated by Evetts.
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Nicaragua Canal
Harper’s Weekly
Boston
James Cullen
William Taylor, Jr
Walter Scott
E. H. Woodruff
Scribner’s
Peveril
Ballantyne
Sir Walter
Inngland
White
Cornell University
Woodruff
Century Company
W. Whitney
A.D. White
Colonel Long
Chosén
Corea
Percival Lowell
Messrs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Washington
Worthington
Ford
J. J. Jusserand
Chaldea
Assyria
Persia
Judea
Phenicia
Carthage
M. Ernst Babelon
Bibliothéque Nationale
B. T. A. Evetts
British Museum
Poet Wanders Boston Cops and Civic Echoes
The Poet, transported by fancy, wanders Boston's Faneuil Hall and Common encountering a Browning Club police officer, a peripatetic injunction to move on, and imagined Chicago, Philadelphia, and Athens as he muses on cops. He envisions Boston viewers, a newsboy, city ordinances, and the gold rimmed scholar gaze of spectators.
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N. Y. Sun
Faneuil Hall
Boston
Legion
Boston Common
Rome
Philadelphia
Gaul
Ararat
William Penn
West
Chicago
Jameson
Old Town
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Somerville Postoffice
Reform Club
Fancy
Gouverneur M. Smith
The
Medical Record
New York Sun
New York Herald
Army
Duffy
Charles F. Libbie & CO
Waynard Place
Ana
Napoleona
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Florida Oranges
R. Knights & CO
Washington St
Main St
Cambridgeport
County of
Middlesex
A. D
S. R. Knights & Company
Washington Sreet
Bristol Street
Mason
Middlesex Southern
West Dock
Lum
Willard A. Bullard
Martha E. Whitlemore
Alex. Dickinson
Snow & CO
Fulton Street
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Anna M. Cowdrey
Ellen S. Getchell
Roxbury Street
Maria Kramer
William Bassett van Matthews
Suffolk
Back Bay
St. Paul Street
Falmouth Street
Kaller and Whitney
Nathan Matthews
Richards & CO
New York and
Providence
East End Union Depot
Providence & Worcester R. R
Edward B
Sun Court Street
William H. Stodder
Washington Street
Federal Street
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