Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club will debate Lincoln University, the pioneer negro college, at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Tremont Temple on the question: "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable." The Harvard team, composed of J. K. Fairbank '29 and E. H. Hubbard '30, will uphold the affirmative, while R. H. Hill and Thurgood Marshall, of Lincoln University, will uphold the negative of the question. L. G. Brooks '02, a Boston lawyer, will preside...
Died. Jeannie Gourlay Struthers, 83, actress, member of the cast that played Our American Cousin in Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C., the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated; at Media...
...mont went to California to look after his troublesome Mariposa properties, also made friends with Bret Harte who called Jessie a "fairy godmother." Then Lincoln was elected President and Civil War smouldered. Frémont became Commander of the Department of the West with headquarters in St. Louis. Missouri was a bed of sectional emotions; Frémont was a hot-headed commander; there were a "Hundred Days" of trouble. Lincoln removed him after he had declared martial law and prematurely emancipated the slaves in Missouri. He was given another chance as general in Virginia, but failed and fell...
...have written 698 pages about him. But Mr. Nevins is a respecter of history, a scholar. His Frémont, entrancing, exacting, will not be a dust-catcher on top library shelves. It has put more life in the prairies than any book since Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. It has harnessed the antics of land-grabbing, gold-greedy pioneers and hot-tempered politicians. It has gusto...
...World," now being played at the Repertory Theatre in Boston, is on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room. The edition was published in 1700, and is from Frederick Locker Sampeon's collection. On the title page them appears the inscription "As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants...