Word: virginia
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Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856. He graduated from Princeton in the class of 1879, studied law at the University of Virginia during the next two years and then for two years practised law in Atlanta. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1886; his doctor's thesis on "Congressional Government" has often been reprinted. He was Associate Professor of History and Political Economy at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1888 and at Wesleyan University from 1888 to 1890. In the latter year he accepted the chair of Jurisprudence...
...sending their scores to a branch of the War Department at Washington under whose auspices the meet is held. Each team is composed of ten men, of whom the scores of the five highest count. The University team has already held two shoots, with Delaware College and West Virginia University, but the scores have not been announced as yet by the War Department. The schedule of the remaining matches for the University team is as follows...
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Solution and Topography in the Mountains of Virginia." (Illustrated). Mr. W. P. Haynes Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...
Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July...
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Solution and Topography in the Mountains of Virginia." (Illustrated). Mr. W. P. Haynes. Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...