Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Montgomery Gibson, Yale, '92, a son of Senator Randall S. Gibson of Louisiana, has been missing from college for a week, and detectives are now searching for him. He is known to have cashed a check for several hundred dollars a week ago, but has not been seen since, either by his classmates or by the college athorities...
...Carlton Hunt of Louisiana has been visiting Harvard...
...book counter: Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot; Choate's Elements of English Speech; Crawford's American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...
Among those who witnessed the meeting were President Eliot and Congressman Hunt of Louisiana...
...said the old gentleman, with marked emphasis and vivacity, his face lighting up; "we have the boys! They are fine boys! bright boys! good boys! There is in them the making of new Madisons, Jeffersons, Calhouns, Clays! We need such men in the South! We need them in Louisiana above all! And we have the boys there to become such men, only they lack the educational resources. The common school system of the State is defective. When I made my first donations towards establishing the university I was not aware the property so given would be taxed. Such treatment...