Word: dreher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Miss Virginia Dreher of Daly's troupe, visited the college yesterday...
...showing the changes in a hundred years, President Dreher, in his brief historical remarks on commencement day, called attention to the fact that on a bill overlooking our beautiful valley, with its musical Indian name, Roanoke, lie the remains of the 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...
...them a sacred work. For some years past he had learned of this heroic and self-sacrificing endeavor and the more he knew of the work and its representatives the more he esteemed both, and such would be the case with all as they become acquainted with President Dreher and the college. Roanoke is now what Harvard was 100 years ago, in buildings and the number of professors, though Harvard then had some endowment...