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...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. Mr. Mckinney's Choctaw speech, so well delivered in his native tongue and then in English, on commencement day, was a feature of special interest. It was received with so much applause that Mr. Charles Dudley Warner in presenting the English Prize Scholarship, remarked that "Choctaw must be the favorite language in Salem." This demonstration of approval showed the good will and sympathy of the many friends made by Mr. McKinney during his stay...
...special car of the Harvard Glee Club was run into by an express train at Charleston, Indiana. Two of the students were dangerously injured and several badly wounded. [Badger...
...lectures on archaeology that Dr. Charles Waldstein is delivering at Columbia College are, like all his utterances, not mere resumes of the researches, discoveries and opinions of other scholars, but the result of his own special studies and "finds." The first one, given under the auspices of the Alumni Association of Columbia, on the evening of Jan. 11, was on "The Influence of Athletic Games upon Greek Art." A number of large drawings were used by the lecturer to demonstrate his theory. The Association invited painters, sculptors, writers, and others to attend, and the crowded audience was thoroughly interested throughout...
...therefore the university cannot deem it advisable for the state to cease to require a Gymnasium training for its future functionaries." There is no doubt about the sincerity of the faculty who wrote this report, and the fact that this faculty, composed in a large degree of men whose special attention was given to purely scientific subjects, reiterated this opinion in such strong terms in 1880 adds great weight to the views of the classicists...
...observatory at Columbia is on top of the library building. The great need, Professor Rees, its director, has said, was a special endowment. An endowment fund of $150,000 or $200,000 would make it the finest observatory in the country. The college had spent so much money in new building that it could not specially endow the observatory...