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...decrease in receipts of several thousand dollars caused by doing away with subscriptions, combined with a formidable array of increased expenditures, formed an obstacle which only most careful and constant supervision on the part of those in charge could surmount...
...other wars. Between eight and nine thousand dollars will be needed for the erection of this flagstaff, which will be set on an ornamental bronze pedestal, resting on a sub-structure of granite, surrounded by a seat of the same stone. A bronze eagle and ball will surmount the staff and around the pedestal will be four tablets bearing the names of the soldiers and patriots who lie in the old burial ground nearby...
...canopy, which will run the whole perimeter of the structure, will be built over the highest promenade. This canopy will have the appearance, from outside the Stadium, of another tier of windows, square in shape, in the same vertical line with the present lower rows. An elaborate cornice will surmount the openings. On this, in turn, a parapet wall will be constructed. In all, the new work will add approximately twenty feet to the height of the Stadium...
After a brief sketch of his life, vividly portraying the difficulties which he had to surmount, from the day when he was a slave boy to the time when he was a slave boy to the time when he graduated from the Hampton Institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee Institute. The institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee institute. The institute began with a membership of one teacher and thirty students. The school-house was a shanty of small dimensions. Now there are 156 teachers and 1500 men and women coming from...
...Paul Revere Frothingham of Boston, preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as his text the thirty seventh verse of the eighth chapter of Romans: In all these things we are more than conquerers.." To overcome temptations, to surmount obstacles, to be the conqueror in life's battle is seemingly to attain supreme success. And there is a strange sound in the word of Paul, be ye "more than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely...