Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of professors from German French and English universities have agreed to occupy chairs at the New Washington University...
There is at present in Boston at 525 Washington Str. an exhibition of two celebrated pictures, which all interested in art ought to see. The pictures are "The Temptation of St. Anthony" by Aimee Morat and "The Wedding Feast of Cana" by Paul Veronese...
...Next picture to yourselves the 60,000 students in colleges and universities-selected youth of keen intelligence, wide reading and high ambition. They are able to compare Washington with the greatest men of other times and countries, and to appreciate the uniquequality of his renown...
...This local commemoration of one great event in the life of Washington and of the United States is well, but it is nothing compared with the incessant memorial of him which the schools and colleges of the country maintain from generation to generation...
...What a reward is Washington's! What an influence is his and will be! One mind and will transfused by sympathetic instruction into milions; one character a standard for millions; one life a pattern for all public men teaching what greatness is and what the pathway to undying fame...