University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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Lamar Life-Calendar Born in Putnam County, Georgia, September 17, 1825. Entered Freshman Class of Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, August, 1841. Was graduated in July, 1845. Admitted to the bar, Vienna, Georgia, 1847. Married to Miss Virginia L. Longstreet, Oxford, Georgia, july 15, 1847. Removed to Oxford, Mississippi, November, 1849. Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, University of Mississippi, 1850-52. Returned to Georgia, summer of 1852. Candidate for Congress, Third District, 1854. QDefeated.J Returned to Mississippi, October, 1855. Plantation life at Solitude, LaFayette County, 1856-57. Elected to Congress, First District, 1857. Reelected to Congress, First District, 1859. Professor of Ethics and Metaphysics, University of Mississippi 1860-61. Member of Secession Convention, January, 1861. Appointed to Confederate Congress, January, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel of Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment, May 1861. Joined Methodist Episcopal Church, Macon, Georgia, July, 1862. Special Commissioner to the Empire of Russia, November, 1862. Judge Advocate Third Army Corps QA. P. Hill'sj, rank of Col- Y Y ! onel, 1864. Professor of Ethics and Metaphysics, University of Mississippi June, 1866. Professor of Law, University of Mississippi, January, 1867. Degree of LL. D. conferred by University of Mississippi, June, 1869. Offered chair of Belles-Lettres and History, Emory College, July 1870. 1Declined.l Elected to Congress, First District, November, 1872. Eulogy on Charles Sumner, April 28, 1874. Reelected to Congress, First District, November, 1874. Elected to United States Senate, January, 1876. Vote on Silver Bill against instructions of Mississippi Leg- islature, February, 1878. Defense of ex-President jefferson Davis against Senator Hoar's attack, March 1, 1879. Tilt with Senator Conklin, June 18, 1879. Reelected to United States Senate, January, 1882. Death of Mrs. Lamar, December 50, 1884. Appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Cleveland, March, 1885. Degree of LL. D. conferred by Harvard University, Novem- ber, 1886. Married Mrs. Henrietta J. Holt, Macon, Georgia, january 5, 1887. Oration, John C. Calhoun: His Life, Character, and Public Services, April 26, 1887. Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, january, 1888. Reiinited with Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1891. Died on Monday, January 23, 1893, at Macon, Georgia. Buried in Riverside Cemetery, January 28, 1893. Removal and reinterment in St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mis- sissippi, October 26, 1894.

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The Morning Glory nv XYALTER MALONE Morning glory, morning glory, Fragile as a fairy story, Robed in gowns of purple and of white and red, Diademed with dew, There are none so fair as you, Empress of the world of blossoms e the youth of day is dead. Lovely handmaid of the morning, KJXX K .iq X, Lowly earthly scenes adorning, ,fgv N, , ' -2 An enchantress who is peerless and is proud, X Dec d ' brilliant blooms 'mm N , X x ' Lik me of Tyrian looms, x ' Or th orien ' splentlors of a spangleal slinrise cloud. X -' 4' . N So I ponder and remember x ,Q f Q But amid the noonday splendor fx In a green and gold Septeinb , fx ey Fade away your bosoms tender, I have seen a maiden fair and frail as y ug J' fit As the dewdrops vanish from your feverish face, But she drooped and died. Ixfjfbx X I So you pant and pine I As you perish in your pride, 1 LQK' , G Ere the dazzling day's decline, For the blithest and the brightest vanis 1 wi ,flue nyrning dew.Q-.Ex Losing all your glowof color and your gladsomeness and grace . Morni glory, morning glory. I ffj--f g Fro ev tombstone old and hoary K g j f NL -X X ' Do yo dy' blossoms go to meet her there? 'll ,K ,f ,f X G A X ' ' here in marvelous morn. I Xb f jxi , ' Xltickiiig roses with no thorn, 'J' ' , X-' fx In the xnpire of the an els, does she heed mv heart' esoair? 1- I k f K6- I sy K Q' ' f ' H aux, So I bless now, and kiss vou, K- ' l I gg ' or fi fr ' 'J Hx ' c I X -:W f n-.FZ arling, how I miss you! f'- y A Kg? 'XX 11555 1 K fn heave you are treading, sweet, to-day, X Z, 45 Does your bosom thrill XXX' - 7 ' i x - fi XVhen vou hear I love vou still +P' X fi -A - - ' ,Kava Arr v 1 v t - - y , - 7 - Xxx. Il 1 I , -knd are you still faithful svs eetheart to your lover far awa ? 4 X Q y Y