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Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, and Johnson did not go to college. Grant was educated at West Point, the two Adamses at Harvard; Jefferson, Munroe and Tyler, at William and Mary's College; Madison at Princeton, Polk at the University of North Carolina, Pierce at Bowdoin, Buchanan at Dickinson, Hayes at Kenyon College, Garfield at Williams, and Arthur at Union. Out of twenty-one, thirteen of our presidents received collegiate training...
...Institute Supper will take place on Thursday. May 22, at 7.30 P. M., at Young's Hotel. Tickets can be obtained at 13 Holyoke from 11 to 12, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The officers are: S. Hammond, President; W. R. Thayer, Toastmaster; C. M. Van Buren, Orator; P. Evarts, Poet; J. S. How, Chorister; and Messrs. Sanger, Upham, and Browne, Committee...
...following Associate Members were elected in at the last regular meeting : A. H. Allen, DeBillier, Blaine, Bancroft, Bullard, Ely, Gurney, Teschemacher, P. Tuckerman, Van Buren, Slade, Hancock, B. Wells, '78; Trimble, Sprague, Baylies, Brigham, Meyer, Ware, LeRoy, Van Rensellaer, Williams, Bowen...
Morse, P. S., M. 53. Van Buren...
...makes use of the following "very remarkable expression": "We venture to assert that there are not very many young men in this institution - and we certainly do not think there is at Harvard or Yale - who have read the political history of the United States as given by Van Buren, Greeley, or Stevens; if there is, we should be glad to hear from them." We don't think there is many, but if there WAS, we would send a few to Cornell to lighten the darkness which oppresses them. After reading the above it will be hard to reconcile...