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...much value as the trilogy itself. For several years after he had graduated from college he continued to draw for the Lampoon, his sketches being the chief attraction of the paper until the first series came to an end in the spring of 1880. The most famous of these past graduate Lampoon sketches are those illustrating "Rollo's journey to Cambridge" running through a whole year. By this time Mr. Atwood had acquired a peculiar style of his own which enables one to detect a sketch of his without looking for the name of the artist. Fortunately many...
...member Congress, in a duel, by Mr. Graves of Kentucky; George B. Cheever, a distinguished clergyman and author; Stephen Longfellow the eldest brother of the poet, rapidly rising to distinction at the bar, when his earthly career was cut short by death; John S. C. Abbott, a somewhat famous writer; James W. Bradbury, an able lawyer, who has been in the United States senate (Yale...
General G. W.C. Lee is the president of this famous university. It was founded by Gen. Washington. Gen. Robert E. Lee became its president soon after the late war, and on his death was succeeded by his son, the president incumbent. It is a noble institution. Young men by the hundred from all parts of the country have graduated from it. Its alumni embrace a catalogue of distinguished men some of whom are prominent today in the education of a Northern lady a fine library building has been erected which accommodates 75,000 volumes. The university chapel is a place...
...That the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians to the glory of Almighty God" was one of the reasons assigned in the royal charter for founding William and Mary college. There is no record, however, to show that an Indian ever received a degree from that famous institution. Although Roanoke College has been attended by Choctaws for thirteen years, Mr. William Harrison McKinney is the first one to complete the course and receive a degree, Bachelor of Arts. He has the distinction of being the first Indian, of full blood, to graduate at a Virginia college...
...showing the changes in a hundred years, President Dreher, in his brief historical remarks on commencement day, called attention to the fact that on a bill overlooking our beautiful valley, with its musical Indian name, Roanoke, lie the remains of the distinguished Revolutionary general, Andrew Lewis, the famous Indian fighter of his time and the hero of the battle of Point Pleasant on the 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...