Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...association of collegiate alumnae has been organized, whose object is the uniting of the alumnae of different institutions for practical educational work...
Sumner left Cambridge with grateful recollections of college life. He kept up his interest in all matters pertaining to his Alma Mater, and Harvard never sent forth a son whose affection was warmer at the parting or endured more faithfully...
...Professor" of Mesmerism, whose entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students...
...compelled to sit and shiver in that antique structure when they are being examined, and year after year they have asked that by some means or other the place be made more inhabitable. It is not conducive to a high standard to give men their examinations in a room whose temperature is about that of a refrigerator. Most men do not get so heated by brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero in which to be comfortable. And yet this seems to be the theory on which Massachusetts is heated-or rather left unheated. It does...
...called attention to the fact that on a bill overlooking our beautiful valley, with its musical Indian name, Roanoke, lie the remains of the distinguished Revolutionary general, Andrew Lewis, the famous Indian fighter of his time and the hero of the battle of Point Pleasant on the Ohio, whose statue is one of the proud group around Washington Monument in Richmond. On the same hill lie the remains of a Christian Choctaw who came from beyond the Father of Waters to study at Roanoke College. And this year an Indian who also came from beyond the Mississippi goes forth from...