Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Greener, of Washington, who was not invited to the Washington alumni dinner, is distinguished as the first Negro who ever received a degree from Harvard...
...redoubtable Dennis Kearney. The words of Phillips and Emerson in their Phi Beta Kappa orations were memorable and satutary in their way. Ex-Gov. Long, also one of her sons, has been recently indulging in criticism of the college. At the annual dinner of the Harvard alumni in Washington a few weeks since, it is reported that Mr. Long said that "it was one of the charges against the university that it did not teach Greek. His complaint was that it did not really teach anything; meaning thereby that it gave no sound instruction to a student...
...freshman and sophomore classes of Yale celebrated Washington's birthday with a "banger" rush. Several of the contestants are threatened with suspension...
...consider it our duty to take some notice of the fact that yesterday was according to all historical accounts the anniversary of the birthday of George Washington. In the absence of the fire-escape exhibition of last year the college found itself somewhat at a loss how suitably to celebrate this occasion with becoming ceremonies. With the noble simplicity characteristic of an intensely democratic community all the pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look...
...TUESDAY.Certain authors of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. (Course for sophomores.) Special subject: Washington Irving. Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...