Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company has effected a settlement with the Yale College Glee Club, except Strong and Crehoe, who were so badly injured, for damages resulting from the collision near Charleston, Ind. The club will be paid as an organization $1,200, $450 for expenses and $750 for losses. Bowen, who had his nose and an arm broken, will get $1000. Cutten and Sandford, who were bruised will receive $200 each. The suit against the road has been withdrawn...
...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 the college "not in the war paint of the savage warrior, but clad in the armor of the Prince of Peace, a herald of the gospel of love." The patriotic duty of the past century was to drive the Indians across the great rivers to the wild...
...departments of the University of Mississippi have been opened to women...
...little appreciation in this country. The new topography will be constructed simply in order to secure the varied conditions of shade, moisture and temperature, so far as possible, demanded by the plants. The plan is fully to illustrate Dr. Gray's "Manual" which comprises the plants east of the Mississippi River and north of North Carolina. Efforts towards a completion of the collection were made last summer, and, with the stock already in the greenhouse, a pretty full representation will be made at the start. When completed, the collection will give the best possible opportunity for studying the plants...
...first prize in the oratorical contest at the Kansas State University was recently awarded to Mr. B. K. Bruce, a colored man, the nephew of ex-senator Bruce of Mississippi...