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Henry Ward Beecher went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. His father, Lyman Beecher, was the first president of this little Presbyterian institution which was chartered in 1829 with a gift of money from Ebenezer Lane, New Orleans Baptist, and 60 acres of hilly land from Elnathan Kemper, Cincinnati Presbyterian. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of Lane's Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe, wrote part of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Lane Seminary. A gentle decline set in 30 years ago. Last week Lane had left only 23 students, ten acres of campus, one professor, one part-time lecturer...
...final appointment of Williams commencement speakers was made public Monday. The most striking change in the list of honors, as given out some weeks ago, is that Elnathan Sweet of Albany is awarded the valedictory, instead of Hermon A. Strong of Winstead, Conn. The corrected list of appointments is as follows: Valedictorian, Elnathan Sweet of Albany; salutatorian, Hermon A. Strong of Winsted, Conn.; philosophical orations, Walter A. Bratton of Stamford, Vt., William S. Elder of Auburn, N. Y., Edward C. Miller of Skaneateles, N. Y., and John H. Peck, of Pittsfield; orations, Frederick C. Adams of Natick, James R. Craighead...
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