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Excerpt from Deep Waters: Or a Strange Story
In the latter part of June 18 the little city of Oxford, Miss, was teeming with visitors, not only from various portions of the State, but from the adjoining States of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana. This concourse of people was no unusual spectacle to the citizens of Oxford; for it was but the gathering that occurred regularly once a year. The center of attraction to this fashionable, well-dressed assemblage was the University of Mississippi, which has sent forth hundreds of young men intellectually equipped for the stern struggle for existence - a struggle. The contemplation and investigation of which gave birth to Mr. Darwin's doctrine of The survival of the fittest. What was the mean ing of this concourse? It was Commencement.
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