Word: sumter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scholarships for upperclassmen were awarded in the fall and have already been published, with the exception of the Lewis and Harriet Hayden Scholarship with an income of $200, which has been assigned to Edward Jackson Davis, A. B., Fisk University '95, of Sumter, S. C., a member of the third class. This scholarship was founded in 1894 from a bequest by Mrs. Harriet Hayden, to be devoted to the education of colored students...
...Lowell, Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe were stirring the consciences of mankind against slavery. The words of William Lloyd Garrison were engraved upon the memories of Harvard men. The news of John Brown's raid had startled the land, and now the echo of the guns fired at Fort Sumter was heard. On Bloody Monday, 1862, the campaign was begun, which ended with the battle of Antietam, and for the result of which Lincoln was waiting to issue his proclamation of emancipation. Such were the circumstances under which the class of '66 entered college...
...splendid. There could be no better type of the handsome Southern girl than Margaret Robinson, and the manly Union officer, who loves her and is beloved in turn, could be in no better hands than those of Henry Weaver. These lovers are separated by the shot fired at Fort Sumter and part "enemies." They meet during the conflict and are finally united after the victory at Cedar Creek. Bronson Howard has told this love story in his most masterly style, and it is this intensely human and charmingly simple story that has caused "Shenandoah" to be played in New York...