Word: south
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prospectus of a Kentucky "college" for young women is the following: "The president is Southern by birth, by rearing, by education, and by sentiment; the teachers are all Southern in sentiment, and, with the exception of those born in Europe, were born and reared in the South. Believing the Southern to be the highest type of civilization this continent has seen, the young ladies are trained according to the Southern ideas of delicacy, refinement, womanhood, religion and propriety; hence we offer a first-class female college for the South, and solicit Southern patronage...
...Aademy was held Tuesday. Walter Brigham Phillips of Boston was president of the day. The exercises in the chapel were as follows: History of the class, by George Richmond Parsons of Providence, R. I.; prophecy, by Judd Ellis Bulley of Waverly, N. Y.; oration, by John McKinstrey Merriam of South Framingham, Mass.; poem, by Frank Anthony Luques of Biddeford, Me. The exercises closed with "Auld Lang Syne." The usual exercises about the class tree then occurred. In the evening a brilliant reception was held. The number in the class is 31; whole number in the school...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, slightly warmer fair weather, winds mostly from the south, stationary or slight rise in barometer...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, the Middle and South Atlantic States, fair weather, north to west winds and higher barometer...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, local rains and partly cloudy, slightly warmer, weather, winds shifting to south and west, falling barometer...