Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President White, of Cornell, has been chosen to succeed Prof. Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institute...
...Deutscher Verein has a new shingle resplendent with the German colors-crimson, white and black...
...this evening's concert the club will be assisted by Hackett, Willard and Longworth, all of '91-Hackett and Willard each singing a solo, and Longworth playing a solo on the violin. The club has twenty-four members: First tenors-Rice, Ruggles, Parker, Blaney, Willard, Scott; second tenors-Liscomb, White, King, Morton, Hayes; first bases-Williams, Frame, Holt, Marple, Washburn. J. W. Rice, Geary; second basses-Griffin, Hate, Hopkinson, Cannon, Longstreth, Embick, Alkinson. The officers of the club are: President, Atkinson; secretary, Hopkinson; leader, Liscomb...
...Glenn bill, which makes it a penal offence to teach in mixed schools of white and colored pupils, has brought the Atlanta University into prominence. In 1869, the Freedman's Burean established the university and soon after the State appropriated a large sum for its support. The outcry raised against the Glenn bill was so great that a modification was introduced which withheld all State appropriations, and by so doing a direct income of $8000 per year was taken from the university. The policy of the institution has not been abandoned on this account, and the subscriptions of private individuals...
...March Popular Science Monthly will contain an article by Andrew D. White, ex-President of Cornell, entitled "New Chapters in the Warfare of Science...