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...honoring the birthdays of King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In Selma, the city council voted over the protest of Mayor Joe Smitherman to approve a candlelight walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 clash between black marchers and police. In Birmingham, near the Sixteeth Avenue Baptist Church, where a bomb killed four little girls in 1963, a 7-ft.-tall bronze likeness of King was scheduled to be unveiled Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Luther King: Honoring Justice's Drum Major | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...number of years past a prize of one hundred dollars has been offered by John Osborne Sargent of the class of 1830 for the best metrical translation of an Ode of Horace. The ode to be translated this year is the sixteeth of the third book. The competition is open to undergraduates of Harvard and students of the "Annex." If no competitor appears to deserve the prize, it may be withheld. The versions must be deposited with the Dean before the first of May, 1892. They must be written under an assumed name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sargent Prize. | 12/18/1891 | See Source »

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