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...annual meeting of the trustees of Oberlin College, held on Wednesday of this week, W. G. Ballantine, D. D., was on the unanimous nomination of the faculty unanimously elected to the presidency of the college. The new president was born at Washington, D. C., December 7, 1848. His boyhood was spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father was professor of Hebrew in Lane Theological Seminary. He graduated from Marietta College in 1868. In 1872 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and the same year entered upon post-graduate study at the University of Leipsic...
Professor Taussig was to have spoken on the "Silver Question" at a dinner of the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League this week, but his business in Washington prevented his doing so. It is hoped that when he returns the Tariff Reform League will offer the public another chance to hear...
Professor Taussig has gone to Washington with the Boston Delegation to appear before the committee concerning the silver bill...
...next decade the historian passed in politics, holding the offices of collector of the port of Boston, envoy to Great Britain, and secretary of the navy. He signalized his administration of this latter position by the foundation of the naval academy at Annapolis and the astronomical observatory at Washington...
Again Mr. Bancroft was to represent his native country abroad and in 1867 became minister to Prussia. Seven years later he returned to Washington, where he has since resided. He then issued the tenth volume of his history and revised the whole work in 1876. He spent the next four years on a history of the government of the United States from 1783 to 1789. Mr. Bancroft's library, consisting of 12,000 volumes, is one of the finest collections in the country...