Word: south
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barnwell, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1822, is dead, at the age of 81 years. Mr. Barnwell has been United States Representative and Senator and afterwards president of the University of South Carolina...
...McLane, the independent candidate for governor of South Carolina, will contest the election of the Democrat returned by the Democratic returning board as the elected governor...
...used to signify any thing else than the symbol of Christianity. Writers of Indian travels, as late as 1775 and even 1809, still use the good old name of baggatiway in speaking of the national game of the Indians a game that was played among the Choctaws of the South, as well as by the Sacs and Chippewas of the North. Baggatiway was to Indians what chariot racing and the throwing of the discus were to the Greeks; what cricket is to the English; what base-ball is to Americans; a game that attracted the attention and tried the skill...
...free Greece from Turkish rule, Lieber was forced by political persecutions in Germany to leave the Fatherland. After vainly struggling to earn a living in England, he came to this country in 1827, and settled in Boston as director of a gymnasium and swimming school. Later he went to South Carolina to become professor in a Southern college, and finally held the chair of political science in Columbia College till his death in '72. Lieber was widely known as a writer on economics and International Law, but readers will now find most interest in his acquaintance with prominent men here...
...very formidable rival for the foot - ball championship. The report is that Harvard favors this movement. It would enable the nines of the four other colleges to play three instead of two games with each other. The great distance between Dartmouth at the north and Princeton in the south is one among the numerous arguments used. To us it seems that it would not only make the base - ball games more interesting for the three or four larger colleges, but it would enable Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams, and perhaps one or two others to have a series of championship games which...