Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...JONES.ALL men from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and all States west of the Mississippi, interested in the formation of a Western Club are requested to meet at 59 Thayer next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock...
...entered college. Last year there were only four men from west of Missouri, and this year there are eleven. But this is hardly a fair estimate of what is commonly called the West. Taking into account the States bordering on the northern bank of the Ohio, and on the Mississippi north of and including Missouri it is seen that the support has been increasing for the last two years. '93 contributed 30 men from these States, '94 contributed 34, and '95 contributes 39. With the exception of '92 no previous class has drawn more than 30 men from this part...
...growing strength in the far Western States. In the years before the war, almost all of Harvard's graduates settled in the East, while a large portion of Yale's went to the West. Of late years, however, many of Harvard's representative have been going west of the Mississippi. Their presence there shows in the energy and strength of the Harvard Clubs which they have established; it shows in the royal welcome they have given to their former teacher. His presence and words, in turn, have given renewed zest to the interest they have in working for the University...
Harvard is unusually strong in the states west of the Mississippi. In the Chio valley, on the contrary, is Yale's stronghold. Before the war a large part of her many graduates settled in that region, and made a great boom for Yale. Since the war, however, Harvard has been sending more of her men out West and the results are now showing. This growing interest in Harvard is likely to result in a still further representation in our college and graduate school from the western schools and colleges...
...government to give comfortable houses to the Indians have not been observed in one case out of five. When we think of these things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness was changed into dissatisfaction, a dissatisfaction which caused them continually to brood over their wrongs, having no work to occupy their...