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...evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth...
...following colleges and universities were elected to membership: Holy Cross College, University of Rochester, University of Wisconsin, Columbian University of Washington, D. C., Boston University, Washington and Jefferson College. Union College was reinstated as a full member, with the proviso that no athlete who had competed under its colors in the last two years should be eligible for competition in the future. This shuts C. H. Kilpatrick, holder of the world's record for the half mile, out of any further competition in collegiate championships...
Edward Renshaw Jones of the class of 1893 died Wednesday at his home, 20 Washington Sq., New York. He had been ill for about two weeks with appendicitis. He graduated in 1893 and entered the Columbia Law School, in which he was a student at the time of his death. While in college he was a member of the D. K. E., the Institute of 1770 and the Hasty Pudding Club...
April 7. Georgetown, at Washington...
...Friday, Justin Winsor, University Librarian appeared, as an expert, before the Venezuelan Boundary Commission at Washington, D. C., and gave cartographical information which his studies have made of great value in the Venezuelan boundary dispute...