Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Justin Winsor recently left with his family for St. Louis, to attend the American Libarian Association conference. After the conference closes Mr. Winsor will undoubtedly accompany the association on its excursion down the Mississippi river to New Orleans...
...entered in 1824, graduated with high honors in 1828 and became a tutor there. From 1837 to 1839 he was professor of mathematics and natural history in the University of Alabama. He remained there until 1854, when he became professor of astronomy in the University of Mississippi. In 1856 he was elected president of the University of Mississippi, and in 1864 became president of Columbia College...
...large audience gathered, in spite of the disagreeable weather, and heard an interesting account of a remote and greatly misjudged portion of the United States. Dr. Jackson first described the vast extent of Alaska, stating that it was almost equal in size to all the states east of the Mississippi, and its natural resources. He said that the income to our national treasury from the fur industry alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities of fish in the neighboring waters, forests which surpass those...
Students who apply for admission to the University of Mississippi must first swear that they have no firearms about them, and that no person or persons have any in keeping for them...
...seven o'clock, as the train was nearing the Mississippi, Leighton, '88, came aboard and detailed the programme for the stay in St Louis. That very evening there was to be an informal reception at the University Club: next day, the clubs were to take luncheon at the St. Louis Club through the kindness of Davis, '89, then the concert in the evening and, last of all, the Imperial ball. The programme was fully carried...