Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...West Virginian is responsible for the following in reference to the University of West Virginia : "We were told recently that a student of the university at Morgantown, desiring to read the life of Charles Sumner, applied to Professor Harvey, the librarian, for the same. He was told that the book was not in the library, but that if it were he would not get it, as he, Harvey, regarded it as not being a fit book for him to read. Of course not. It is a text-book of patriotism, liberty, philanthrophy and correct politics. It teaches loyalty and calls...
...rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter stock; one Wolverine, two Buckeyes, and a Yankee son-of-a-peddlar from Massachusetts...