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...slave to her divinity. This was a tall lad, handsome, courtly. He had begged her hand time and again, receiving her refusals with cheery fortitude. Her parents preferred him to "the player." He used to send her stunning bouquets from the White House conservatory. He was President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert...
...Which is the oldest (1866) university for Negroes in the South...
...four years later. In October, 1910, when Woodrow Wilson resigned his presidential chair at Princeton to become Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Stewart as senior trustee was called upon to serve as president pro tempore until the inauguration of Dr. Hibben in January, 1912. Known as Wall Street's oldest financier (he relinquished the presidency of the U. S. Trust Co. 24 years ago, serving as chairman of the board thereafter) and as Columbia's oldest living graduate, Mr. Stewart is also Princeton's oldest official. He has seen the regimes of Presidents Maclean, McCosh, Patton, Wilson, Stewart and Hibben...
Died. Jacob Haish, 99, "inventor of barbed wire," possibly the oldest bank president in the U. S. (Haish State, De Kalb, Ill.), millionaire; at De Kalb, of pneumonia...
...receive his doctorate in May. An Indianian, graduated by Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.) in 1912, Mr. Jones has studied in England and at Hartford Theological Seminary; has been a missionary to Japan, a Y. M. C. A. man in Vladivostock. On June 1 he will become president of the oldest university (1866) for Negroes in the South...