Word: southern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 and abroad-with Niebuhr, Humbolt, the present...
...breaking up the two rival freshman societies, Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Delta Kappa. The former was established at Yale in 1840, and has had several chapters in other colleges, but all are now defunct. The Delta Kappa was established at Yale, like its rival, but five years later. Its southern chapters were broken up by the Rebellion, the Amherst chapter died in 1870, the Yale chapter was suppressed by the faculty in 1879, and now the Dartmouth chapter gives up the ghost...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather in the southern portions, local rains, followed by fair weather in the northern portions, cooler southwest to northwest winds and stationary or rising barometer...
Philip B. Swing, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, died last night at his residence at Batavia, O. Judge Swing was 62 years...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28, 1. A.M. For New England, slightly cooler, northeast to northwest winds, partly cloudy weather, and light rains in the southern portion, slight rise, followed by fall in barometer...