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Congressman George D. Wise said at Richmond Saturday: "I was born a protectionist." Perhaps he was smuggled...
...thirtieth anniversary of Daniel Webster's death was commemorated yesterday at Franklin, N. H., where Webster was born...
...controlling influence in politics." "It may be questioned," he says, "whether this inclination of those connected with Harvard College to exert a controlling influence in politics may not inure to the benefit of General Butler, and give him many votes. He did not graduate at Harvard, was not born on Beacon street, and does not own a lot in Mt. Auburn; but the story goes that 'he is a brick and made the Southern traitors sick,' and his election might tend to induce the officers of old Harvard to devote themselves to the legitimate duties of their positions, keep...
...following biographical sketch of President Noah Porter of Yale is from the Era: "President Porter is the son of a Connecticut minister, and was born in 1811. He was graduated from Yale in 1831, and, after some years spent in teaching and preaching, returned in 1846 to take the chair of Metaphysics which he has ever since held. In 1871 he succeeded Dr. Woolsey as president of the college. With the exception of his "Books and Reading" and his "American Colleges" and "The American Public," nearly all of Dr. Porter's books are upon metaphysical themes. But the work which...
...prospectus of a Kentucky "college" for young women is the following: "The president is Southern by birth, by rearing, by education, and by sentiment; the teachers are all Southern in sentiment, and, with the exception of those born in Europe, were born and reared in the South. Believing the Southern to be the highest type of civilization this continent has seen, the young ladies are trained according to the Southern ideas of delicacy, refinement, womanhood, religion and propriety; hence we offer a first-class female college for the South, and solicit Southern patronage...