Word: southern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Political arguments: 1 (a) Illiteracy in the South.- Blair in Record, Jan. 27, '88, p. 272. (b) Want of southern interest in negro education.- Rep't of S. C. Sup't of Education. (c) Impoverishment of South.- Brown in Cong. Rec., Jan. 19, '88, p. 566. (d) Insufficiency of school appropriations.- Rep't of La., Ga., N. C. school commissioners, 1886. 2. Uneducated voters harm the State.- Aristotle's Politics; Nation...
...percentage of increase of educational facilities in the Southern States compares favorably with that in many of the Northern States.- Report of U. S. Commissioner of Education...
...materials for which have been accumulating for several years. These two buildings will form the central part of the front of the projected University Museum, of which the Museum of Comparative Zoology now forms the northern wing, while the Peabody Museum stands at the eastern extremity of the southern wing. Another large lecture room will also be provided, and proper consideration for the feelings of the students certainly demands that it be placed a few flights lower down than Professor Shaler's present lecture room...
...before the Christmas recess may be obtained at that time. The conference meetings of N. II. XVI. will be resumed on Tuesday, 14th inst., at 7.45 p. m., in room 2. Museum. Professor Shaler will give an account of the more important results obtained in his recent-expedition to Southern Florida...
...happen to receive this very day a letter from South Carolina which contains a passage so apropos that I cannot help quoting it. The writer speaks of a student, of I know not what Southern college, who is in the house. "I asked him about the tone of honor among them. He said a man he knew from near here cheated in his Latin examination. It was known to the other men, who told their friends, and the fellow was dropped completely. He had no friends-all cut him-and at last he could stand it no longer, so cleared...