Word: south
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Before the war-a phrase which dates most important events in Southern history-this was pre-eminently the college of the South, writes a correspondent of the New York Tribune from the University of Virginia. It had few rivals, and its broad methods of study and liberal discipline drew the young man of family, the chivalric blood which is the precious Southern tradition, to its halls. Most educated men older than forty in the South have spent a season here, and even now, with the multiplication of State universities and privately endowed colleges in the South Atlantic and Gulf States...
...indignantly exclaimed a certain manufacturer lately. "Here I spent $4,000 on that boy of mine. He came out of college with flying colors. I put him in charge of the factory while I went off for a little vacation, and what do you suppose he did? Shipped to South America 50,000 of my new patent snow shovels...
...Mercer, and possibly Mr. P. Grant, Jr., will be of the party. The Gitana is fitted out for the cruise in the most perfect manner possible, no detail having been overlooked. She sails first for the Bermudas, thence to Madeira, Gibralta, the coast of Spain and the south of France, thence to Italy, Sicily, Algiers and Tangiers in Africa, the Canary Islands, Trinidad, working through the West India Islands and so north to Florida and along the coast to Hampton Roads. Mr. Weld expects to return by April next...
...South Wales offers to reveal the name of the writer of plays and sonnets written by the author of Hamlet. This is as funny as the Boston merchant who after reading Shakespere said that he did not think "there were twenty men in Boston who could have written the plays...
Although the fire in South Middle yesterday did no damage to the building, and was easily extinguished, yet it ruined the furniture of the room to an extent which $150 will not cover. This is a fit time to call the attention of the students again to the necessity of insuring the furniture of their rooms. The whole brick row might be in a blaze, before the fire department could arrive, owing to their being no alarm box on the campus, but never mind that. Our lives may be in the greatest peril from the lack of proper fire escapes...