Word: greener
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...telegraphic account of the dinner of the Washington Harvard Club. Senator Hoar, and Representative Long declined to attend, because of the exclusion of Messrs. Greener and Terrell from the club...
...recent correspondent, Mr. Webb, would have us assume, the Washington club blackballed Messrs. Greener and Terrell for other reasons than their color, the situation of the club at present is peculiarly unfortunate. Those reasons are evidently of such a nature that the club is unwilling to make them public, preferring rather to suffer under an unjust charge of race prejudice. This state of affairs must, of course, be a severe strain upon the patience of the club, and is apt to end in the indignation of some one of the members getting the better of him, and a revelation following...
...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...
...degree of LL. D. has been conferred on Prof. Richard T. Greener, '70, by Monrovia College, Liberia...