Word: va
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Roanoke College, at Salem, Va., is doing a most valuable work in solving the educational problem in the South. The curriculum and methods of Roanoke are patterned after the best northern colleges...
...Varsity is comparatively limited, but the formation of a second crew with the incentive of possibly representing the college in Union regattas would arouse great interest, and bring forward many new men, who, while feeling their in ability to compete with more tried men for seats in the 'Va sity boat, would nevertheless be eager to try for such a position...
Yesterday's Boston Post has the following in regard to the gentleman who is to lecture here tomorrow night: "Of Walter H. Page, whose New York letters to the Post are familiar to its regular readers, the Richmond (Va.) State says: 'Mr. Page is a North Carolina, and the "Old North State" will find in him a worthy son and representative. The day is not far off when he will be one of the foremost leaders of public thought in the great metropolis of the country...
...once famous William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., the alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe and Randolph, had only one student last year, and is now closed. That one student quit because he couldn't stand the blame for all the deviltry committed for miles around. - [Post...
...Paynter, for many years Richmond manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and at the time of his death superintendent of the Southern Telegraph Company, died at his residence at Richmond, Va., yesterday, aged...