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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ropes calls the attention of persons who mean to compete for this prize to on article entitled "Napoleon on Himself," to be found in the January number of the Nineteenth Century. This article contains some hitherto unpublished statements, made by Napoleon on the subject of the affair of the Duc D' Enghien. The prize of $150 is offered by Mr. Ropes for the best essay upon "The execution of the Duc d'Enghien...
...room is a sail-loft refitted in an attractive style and is used daily by over one hundred men for reading, writing, smoking and playing games. Hitherto the reading matter has consisted of the daily papers and of such back numbers of the illustrated periodicals as were donated. The fresh current numbers would naturally prove more interesting and attractive to the readers...
...would seem, of most graduates. Out of nine alumni recently consulted on this question,- of the classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would be no longer the dear and beautiful festival which it has been for more than fifty years...
...nominal title of governor for forty years, but who governed by means of deputies whom he sent out. Perhaps the most famous of these was Alexander Spottswood, who came over in 1710. His most memorable act was the conducting of an expedition, consisting of fifty men, over the hitherto unexplored Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley. Spottswood too was in 1722 removed as the result of a dispute with Dr. Blair concerning the governors right to appoint the clergy to their parishes...
...Fiske spoke of the important part played by the Scotch-Irish in the history of the Alleghany region. About 1730 they began pouring into the Shenandoah Valley, bringing Democracy and Presbyterianism where hitherto the Cavalier ideas and the Established Church had held sway. This conflict resulted in a thing most happy for the colony-the separation of church and state. "Indeed," said the lecturer, "the Shenandoah may be called the cradle of Democracy...