Word: choctaw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported that the Yale Freshman are to have a Sanskrit yell.-Ex. Cornell Sophomores will go them one better in having a Choctaw yell...
...Western Indians to the glory of Almighty God" was one of the reasons assigned in the royal charter for founding William and Mary college. There is no record, however, to show that an Indian ever received a degree from that famous institution. Although Roanoke College has been attended by Choctaws for thirteen years, Mr. William Harrison McKinney is the first one to complete the course and receive a degree, Bachelor of Arts. He has the distinction of being the first Indian, of full blood, to graduate at a Virginia college. Mr. Mckinney's Choctaw speech, so well delivered...
...distinguished Revolutionary general, Andrew Lewis, the famous Indian fighter of his time and the hero of the battle of Point Pleasant on the Ohio, whose statue is one of the proud group around Washington Monument in Richmond. On the same hill lie the remains of a Christian Choctaw who came from beyond the Father of Waters to study at Roanoke College. And this year an Indian who also came from beyond the Mississippi goes forth from the college "not in the war paint of the savage warrior, but clad in the armor of the Prince of Peace, a herald...
...Choctaw Indian, who graduates this year at Roanoke College, will give his graduating oration in his native tongue...
...McKinney, a Choctaw Indian, who graduates at Roanoke College this year, will deliver a commencement oration in the Indian language...