Word: southern
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURE. "The Construction of Rates in the South." Mr. J. M. Culp, Vice-President of the Southern Railway Company, Washington, D. C. Emerson...
...Chao, Tientsin, China. Philip Greeley Clapp, Roxbury. Kevork Costikyan, London, Eng. Roy Wilson Follett, North Attleboro. Alfred Arthur Jenkins, Scranton, Pa. Sidney Fiske Kimball, Dorchester. Hans von Kaltenborn, Madison, Wis. Oscar Gottfried Mayer, Chicago, Ill. Norman Burdett Nash, Cambridge. Harold Everett Porter, New York, N. Y. Fletcher Nichols Robinson, Southern Pines, N. C. William Green Roelker, Jr., Newport, R. I. Robert Emmons Rogers, Cambridge. Charles Milton Rogerson, Milton. George Emlen Roosevelt, New York, N. Y. Frederic Schenck, Lenox. Lee Simonson, New York, N. Y. Paul Dawes Turner, Malden. Charles Augustus Whipple, Salem. John Bloodgood Worcester, Dorchester...
...rest of the number is ordinary in comparison with these. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a Robert Chambers tale of a southern man and a college cousin who emerge, like Shadrach and Abednego, from a very vivid forest fire to find themselves engaged. "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Art," is a typical college essay of the lighter sort, pleasant, facile, well-written, and without much significance...
...earthquake shocks and tidal wave in Southern Italy and Sicily which saddened the civilized world at the close of the old year had hardly ceased rumbling before contributions were being poured in to central agencies in this and other countries throughout the world to be used in relieving the agonies and sufferings of the stricken Messinians and Calabrians. Large sums of money have been hurried to the scene of the disaster and supplies of food and clothing are being rushed to the relief of the sufferers...
...University, Va. In 1864 he accepted the chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at the University of Alabama, where he remained one year. He held the professorship of Greek in Furman University for the years 1868 and 1869, when he was appointed professor of Old Testament Interpretation in the Southern Baptist Theological School. After ten years' service in this position, Professor Toy received from Harvard in 1880 appointments as Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature and Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. The former position he held until 1903, the latter he will hold until his resignation takes effect...