Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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April 29. Providence League at Lincoln Field...
...Copeland began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools...
Stroke, Greenough; 7, Dorman; 6, Bremer; 5, Derby; 4, Fox; 3, Jones; 2, Lincoln; bow, Fairchild...
Lecture. The Life and Speeches of Lincoln. Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...Copeland will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11 on the "The Life and Speeches of Lincoln." The lecture will be open to members of the University only...