Word: nebraska
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...American Historical Society, and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Illinois Historical Society. He has also been in great demand as a lecturer, and has given Phi Beta Kappa or similar addresses at the Universities of Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Indiana, and other institutions...
...California, 64; New Jersey, 59; Connecticut, 56; Missouri, 56; Iowa, 46; Indiana, 43; Minnesota, 33; District of Columbia, 31; Maryland, 26; Vermont, 26; Colorado, 25; Kentucky, 23; Wisconsin, 22; Michigan, 20; Tennessee, 20; Kansas, 19; Georgia, 16; Washington, 16; Texas, 15; North Carolina, 14; Oregon, 12; Alabama, 11; Nebraska, 11; Virginia, 10; South Carolina, 9; Oklahoma, 8; South Dakota, 8; Utah 8; Montana, 7; West Virginia, 7; Delaware, 5; Mississippi, 5; North Dakota, 4; Wyoming, 4; Arkansas, 3; Louisiana, 3; Florida, 2; Arizona, 1; Idaho, 1; Nevada, 1; New Mexico...
...upon his advice that the first line across the state of Iowa was built. Throughout his career he always commanded respect for himself and his road by consideration and kindness for all those with whom he came in contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent $1,100,000 of his private wealth to prevent its failure, solely because he felt the bank should be saved for the sake of the country. This case of an individual's advancing so vast a sum for the sake of the community is entirely without parallel...
...form of gift to the University has been very popular among the alumni clubs since 1906, when the first scholarship was founded by the Harvard Club of Cleveland. Since that time endowments of this kind have been made by the Harvard Clubs of St. Louis, Lowell, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Nebraska. Most of them are awarded by the terms of the gift to men in the Freshman class, and in the first instance to those from the city or state in whose name the scholarship stands. As a means of meeting the competition of state universities and other institutions where...
...table of the vote by states as it was possible to obtain at the time of going to press: REPUBLICAN. California, 10 Colorado, 5 Connecticut, 7 Delaware, 3 Idaho, 3 Illinois, 27 Indiana, 15 Iowa, 13 Kansas, 10 Maine, 6 Maryland, 8 Massachusetts, 16 Michigan, 14 Minnesota, 11 Nebraska, 8 Nevada, 3 New Hampshire, 4 New Jersey, 12 New York, 39 North Dakota, 4 Ohio, 23 Oregon, 4 Pennsylvania, 34 Rhode Island, 4 South Dakota, 4 Utah, 3 Vermont, 4 Washington, 5 West Virginia, 7 Wisconsin, 13 Wyoming, 3 Total, 322 DEMOCRATIC. Alabama, 11 Arkansas, 9 Florida, 5 Georgia...