Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curious fact," says a recent writer, "that Darmouth was established with the same object as was Harvard: 'the education of English and Indian youth of this country in knowledge and godliness,' Of the several native who were members of the Harvard Indian College, only one graduated. The founder of Dartmouth was a Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, a graduate of Yale. One of his pupils was an Indian named Samson Occum, who afterwards because an effective preacher. He was Wheelock's prize scholar. Occum was a success, and Wheelock felt encoured, until in 1761 it has eleven pupils. More money was wanted...
...better light. As a whole it cannot be said, however, that the affair reflects credit on either party. The students apparently put themselves in the position of an ungentlemanly mob, and as such deserved the correction they obtained. If for nothing less than a description of a curious-relic of custom nearly extinct at all other colleges, the following account is of interest...
...curious thing in connection with the opening of Cornell University this year is the fact that more students have registered the second term than in the first, an occurrence without parallel in the history of the institution...
...stands is disappointing, and it is only on walking out upon the bridge over the river that the beauty of the buildings appears. The most noticeable feature is the Gothic tower rising one hundred and fifty feet from the low lying building that surround it. One of the curious customs of the college, handed down from remote times, is that early Mayday morning the choir ascend to the top of the tower and greet the rising sun with a hymn...
...chapel is a curious old place; the organ, about 300 years old, was taken from the Spanish Armada. It has beautifully carved panels worthy a careful inspection. The columns are of marble from Kilkenny. The reredos is said to be one of the finest church decorations in Europe. Here, also, there are more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small...