Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody Museum has recently acquired about thirty interesting soapstone vessels which were collected in West Virginia by a physician interested in ethnology. Some of them are mere rudely shaped stones, and others are finished and polished dishes which give evidence of skillful workmanship. The vessels are of different shapes and sizes, the circular dishes varying from about four to twelve inches in diameter. They are believed to have been made by the Algonquin Indians, who once inhabited the country in which the soapstone quarries...
April 8.--University of Virginia, at Charlottesville...
...first volume of Macmillan's French Classics, edited by Professor de Sumichrast, is announced by the publishers. It is "Nicomede, Tragedie par Pierre Corneille," with notes by J. A. Harrison of the University of Virginia...
April 13.--Virginia at Charlottesville...
...Washington told the story of his early life, his work in the West Virginia coal mines, of the first information of the Hampton Institute that came to him, his journey there and his reception. At Hampton he was given the chance to work for his education, and there he made the resolution that he would devote the education and training he received to the service of his people in the far South. In 1881 the school at Tuskegee was started in the combined accommodations of a shanty and a hen-house. The school has grown now to an institution with...