Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Fifteen per cent. of the students at Stanford University come from east of the Mississippi...
...school has surpassed even its former record in regard to the number of states represented. Among these are North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, and Oregon. The presence of men from so many sections of the country does much to liberalize college sentiment. Moreover, the general character of the men who enter the school is such as perceptibly to raise the tone of scholarship here...
...Dixie," thoroughly and excellently illustrated by William T. Smedley. Mr. Ralph has a faculty of being able to spend a week in a portion of the country and coming away with an exhaustive knowledge of it. So, in the present case, he describes a trip down the Mississippi and is geographically as much at home as if he had spent his life going from Cairo to Memphis and back again...
...Mississippi...
Such a showing as this is extremely gratifying to us, for it indicates clearly that the liberality and broadness of our courses of study, in the Graduate Department especially, are becoming more and more recognized and appreciated west as well as east of the Mississippi. The administrative board of the Graduate School is exceptionally strong, including as it does some of the best and foremost instructors and thinkers in the country. We are inclined to agree with others in beliving that, as other colleges grow up in various parts of the country and increase in influence with the public...