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...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 out of politics and keep up and maintain the high standard of the college, instead of degrading it with party politics." The attempt "to exert...
...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...
...heavy storm of wind and rain visited southern Indiana and Ohio yesterday. At Hamilton, O., houses were unroofed and trees torn up by the roots. The water in the Miami river rose so high that mills on the banks stopped work. Telegraphic communications and railroad travel are obstructed...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather in the southern portions, local rains in the extreme northern portion, with slightly warmer west to south winds and higher barometer...
...that the hall was dedicated." The dedication of Memorial Hall was but the beginning of Harvard's recognition. Today as the student passes the marble slabs in the transept of Memorial, his imagination carries him to where the sons of his own Alma Mater lie buried in a Southern graveyard, and he is thankful that Harvard, together with all other institutions of learning in our land, still flourishes and that war is no more. Then he thinks of those who helped to make the present state of prosperity possible. Thus it is that patriotism is inculcated at Harvard...