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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 58: beginning of Howard University (search)
n assistant commissioner of the district and vicinity, moved a committee to plan a law department--a medical department having already been favorably canvassed. Thus, little by little, the idea of a university grew upon the preliminary board, the project of an institution which should have many separate departments acting together under one board of trustees. At this January sitting, an important committee was named to obtain a charter. It consisted of Senators Wilson and Pomeroy and Hon. B. C. Cook; and in anticipation of funds, General George W. Balloch was elected treasurer of the university. The institution had already stepped up into the dignity of another name, to wit: Howard University. I had, during the discussion, continued to oppose that name, not only from modesty, but from my feeling that I could do more privately and officially for an enterprise that did not bear my own name; I did not wish to be suspected and accused of raising a monument to myself. But the univers
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
eorge A., I, 620. Coburn, John, I, 615. Cockerell, J. R., I, 565, 566. Cody, W. F., II, 567. Coke, Phillip St. G., I, 147. Colburn, N. B., I, 209. Colby, Abram, II, 384. Cole, A. S., II, 216. Cole, John A., II, 420. Columbia, Taking of, II, 117-133. Colyer, Vincent, II, 176. Comstock, Cyrus B., I, 354, 365, 376. Comte de Paris, I, 377, 401. Coney, Samuel, I, 69. Conway, Thomas W., II, 186, 188, 215-217, 283, 302. Conyngham, David B., I, 532. Cook, B. C., II, 395, 397. Cooke, Jay, 1, 139. Cooper, William, II, 379. Come, J. M., 1, 535, 536; 11, 18, 38, 46, 58-63, 66, 70, 81, 82, 103. Cosby, George B., I, 70. Coster, Charles R., I, 417. Couch, D. N., I, 172, 220, 229, 230, 233-239, 272, 289, 298, 306, 311, 324, 337, 344, 345, 349, 356, 359, 362, 367, 398; II, 181. Courcillon, de, Eugene, 1, 65. Courtney, Mr., I, 238. Cox, Jacob 1)., 1, 272, 280, 303, 304, 511, 565, 585, 592, 609; 11, 13. Cox, R. S., II, 260, 261.