Word: florida
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resign office owing to continued ill health. President Barnard is now seventy-nine years old and has held his present position for over twenty years. Since the beginning of this college year he has only been able to attend two faculty meetings, and has passed the winter months in Florida in the expectation of recuperating enough to be enabled to attend his college duties during the spring term. The only reason that can be given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia's interests, is his desire to fill out a term of twenty-five years...
...Lamb is an account of "Some Unpublished Washington Portraits." The relations which existed between Washington and the artists Robertson and Peele are recounted and a just appreciation manifested for the services which those artists rendered in preserving for posterity the features of our first President. "The Acquisition of Florida," a contribution from Hon, J. L. M. Curry, Minister to Spain, is a historical sketch of the troubles between the United States and Spain during the first years of the republic, and of the European complications which finally ended in the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States. This...
...Clark, professor of Biology at Williams, will conduct a scientific expedition to Florida this vacation. A number of the students will accompany him. The objects are to acquire a knowledge of sub-tropical life, animal and vegetable, to make collections of typical forms for laboratory use, and to establish a future base of supplies...
Field, '91, who is now in Florida, has been elected a member of the Guitar Club and will play the mandola...
Among the new members elected to the Washington Harvard Club at the last meeting were Senator Pasco of Florida, Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, Judges Cooley and Bragg of interstate commerce commission, Professor Henry Mitchell, Second Comptroller Sigourney Butler, and Congressmen Burnett, Cogswell, Rockwell and Lodge of Massachusetts...