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Roger Sawyer Forbes, of Brooklyn, prepared for College at Bristol Academy and at Andover, where he graduated in 1896. While at Andover he won the Draper Prize for speaking; and last year he received one of the Boylston Elocution Prizes. His part is entitled "The Pilgrim...
...Copeland began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools...
Tomorrow's service in Appleton Chapel will be held in commemoration of Forefather's Day, on which anniversary we celebrate the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Although a large part of the college men will be absent, the term does not nominally close until Sunday night and the service is held especially for the men who still remain in college. Christmas music will also be sung...
...Pennsylvania eleven will come to Boston this morning, from Mt. Vernon, N. H., and will be quartered at the Brunswick, where Knipe has prepared for their reception. The men are confident of winning. They will have the support of 800 of their colleagues who came up on the Pilgrim last night from New York...
...class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...