Word: caste
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...raised when the subject was first discussed, the question of expense. It was urged that the cost of the caps and gowns would be far too great for the short time they were used. Fabulous figures of twenty or thirty dollars floated through the air, and an impression was cast abroad that the purchase of a cap and gown would be much beyond the means of some of the more needy members of the class. The contract has now been made to supply the gowns with the caps at a cost of but $7.50; for this contract the committee...
...Prof. Shaler on "The Border State Men of the Civil War." Prof. Shaler is himself a Kentuckian, as all college men know, and therefore he is eminently fitted to give excellent final testimony on such a subject. What Prof. Shaler says on the considerations which finally influenced him to cast his lot for the North is particularly interesting...
...whole room is a ghastly death mask. It is a copy of the original death mask of Oliver Cromwell, and contains quite a history. A number of years ago, the sculptor, Thomas Woolner, who is the author of the famous bust of Carlyle, presented to the historian a cast taken directly from the original death mask of Cromwell, which is in his possession. In 1873, Carlyle. in turn, gave it to Charles Eliot Norton. Later, when Carlyle left to Harvard his valuable library of works on Cromwell, which he had collected during the studies for his essay on him, Professor...
Subject: "Resolved, That a young man casting his first ballot in 1892 should cast it for the nominees of the Democratic party...
Subject: "Resolved, That a young man casting his first ballot in 1892 should cast it for the nominees of the Democratic party...