Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President John Bascom, of the U. of Wisconsin, who has returned to his old home in Williamstown to engage in literary work, has been added to the Williams faculty as lecturer on sociology, and will deliver a course of lectures on that subject to the senior class...
Oberlin boasts of being the first college that admitted women on equal terms with men, but to the University of Wisconsin belongs the honor of having graduated a larger number of women than any other co-educational institution.-Pennsylvanian...
...accurate, but it arose from the fact that it was the farmer element that used its influence to bring it about. The lowest rates were taken as a basis for the whole scale of transportation. The example which Illinois set in this matter was followed by other states as Wisconsin in 1884. The result was very disastrous, and foreign capital was no longer willing to invest in the railroads of those sections...
...Wisconsin a bill providing free text-books for the public schools has passed the legislature...
Justin McCarthy, Carl Schurtz, Henry George, Gen. Lew Wallace, and James G. Blaine, will deliver lectures at the University of Wisconsin this winter...