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During the month of July last Rev. Edw. W. Blyden, D. D., LL. D., arrived in this country from Liberia, since which time the interest in the educational advancement of that country has greatly increased throughout America. Dr. Blyden is the president of Liberia College, is a fluent linguist (speaking no less than seven languages), and has done more to advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern...
Prof. Eliot recently addressed a meeting held in Boston for the promotion of Christian education in Liberia, West Africa. One of the professors of the college at Liberia stated that the Liberian College was to that country what Harvard had been to Massachusetts - an institution for moulding the mind and principles of the people. Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody is at the head of the trustees of the Liberia College...
...existing treaty was introduced in the House yesterday, as was also another electoral bill. S. P. Rounds of Chicago, the new public printer, will be sworn in today. The nominations of W. A. Hunt as minister to Russia, J. B. Partridge to Peru, J. H. Smythe to Liberia, Wm. Williams to Paraguay, and of J. J. Knox as comptroller, were confirmed...
...degree of LL. D. has been conferred on Prof. Richard T. Greener, '70, by Monrovia College, Liberia...