Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have to learn Geography. Now I never could remember all those colors on the map, - could you? Green for Arizona and blue for Oregon. I have a pair of - Oh! bless me, I quite forgot - so I 've thought of a way to interest the poor little things. Make nice pretty verses about all the places, and they 'll learn a good deal about them and the people too. This way, for instance; this...
...have received a copy of the Archangel, from Oregon, addressed to the Magenta; the change in our paper's name is no longer a new story, and under ordinary circumstances we should expect it to be recognized; but this time we are forced to make allowances; for the Archangel has banished all secular considerations, and is devoting itself entirely to grief at the Pope's decease, or, as the Dartmouth would say, transition...
...Archangel, from Portland, Oregon, is a publication of the most startling interest, and because we only notice two articles in its last issue, it must not be supposed that the others are unworthy our attention. The first is a violent attack on Darwinism, in which the train of argument is somewhat as follows: "Darwin denies the Biblical theory of the Creation, and tells us instead that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This...
...large and valuable case of stuffed birds recently received from Oregon has been added to the collection in the Appleton cabinet...
Miscellaneous.- Oregon has opened a State University...