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Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...President Lowell announced that the University had approved plans for the execution of a dining hall at the corner of Holyoke and Mount Anburn Streets if a petition was signed by 500 students pledging themselves to eat regularly at the hall. The petition was started in circulation at once, chiefly in the Freshman Halls, and to date about 200 signatures have been secured. No organized attempt had been made to obtain names of upperclassmen and graduates, although students in the Architectural School are believed to be interested in the project. The 500 signatures were not considered to be sufficient...
...ideal of a large part of the population, which today expresses the fervent hope that he will some day mount the throne and receive his reward for the bitterness which he has undeservedly suffered...
...atempt will then be made on Mount Hooker one of the highest peaks of the region...