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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good teaching. There are no more discouraging biographies than those of men and women who give an account of their education. I should not, however, like to be considered as discouraging this education. I should welcome very heartily the changing of one of our normal schools of this state into a really high normal school, in which all the topics which are grouped together under the general term of pedagogy could be taught and studied...
...Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned, he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing basis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned- a scholarship and pecuniary compensation. a ticket for Boston, and c-were extended to me by a Harvard man early in November to enter the Law school at Harvard and become a member of the Harvard base...
Among the religious books is a manuscript edition of the Koran, the Gospel in Greek and Latin, and Eliot's Indian Bible, the first Bible published in America; a Greek bible which belonged to Dunster the first president of Harvard, and a copy of the Bay State Psalm book, which was printed in 1640. end was the first book printed in America north of Mexico...
DEAR SIRS.- The state of Tennessee has purchased the Hermitage the home of General Andrew Jackson and turned it over to the Ladies' Hermitage Association, an organization composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...membership the amendment to the by-laws proposed at the last meeting, namely, that here after debate do close at ten o'clock, was read and adopted. The question selected for the next debate was as follows: Resolved, That there should be free coinage of silver in the United States. The debate of the evening was on the question: Resolved, That a republican form of government is the best for Brazil. R. L. O'Brien, L. S., opened for the affirmative. He declared that all arguments directed against the advisability of government by a democracy in Brazil were invalid; because...