It is the celebration of the first century of a nation's life that engrosses the thoughts of millions of hearts, and between that great jubilee and that Quadrennial tempest-in-a-teapot, the nomination, who but a few lonely wives and children have time to think of those three columns far, far out in the broad Northwest,-those three columns of regulars, cavalry and infantry, rough-garbed, bronzed and bearded, steadily closing in towards the wild and beautiful region along the northern water-shed of the Big Horn Range, where ten thousand hostile Indians are uneasily watching their coming?
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
3. When, in 1876, the great Quadrennial contest for the Presidency of the Union again recurred; it was rightly considered one of the most momentous crises that had yet occurred in American history.
"School History of North Carolina"
John W. Moore
The need for more frequent consultation with the Colonies is being felt with increasing force, and although no permanent consultation body has yet been created, special ad hoc conferences have recently been held-for Defence in 1909, and for Copyright in 1910-in addition to the Quadrennial meetings, where a vast amount of varied topics are discussed, and the most valuable decisions arrived at.
"The Framework of Home Rule"
Erskine Childers