Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...morning of Saturday, May 7th, Lucian Everett Gibbs of the class of ninety-seven of the Lawrence Scientific School, passed away at his home in Cambridge. For some years he had been in delicate health. The immediate cause of death was a complication of heart trouble and congestion of the lungs. In spite of his long illness, the news of his death comes as a great shock and sorrow to his friends and classmates...
...15th of this month the 'Varsity Glee Club will sing at the Puritan Club on Beacon Hill. On the 17th the Glee, together with the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs will give a concert at the Union Boat Club House. January 7th, has been set as the date for a concert at Rockland, Mass. Two clubs will take part but which two is undecided...
...have entire charge of literary matters. They are expected to provide lectures for the first few meetings of the Verein, and to arrange for the systematic study thenceforth of some German play, or other phase of German literature. The next meeting of the Verein will be held on December 7th...
Among the first regiments to march was the splendid 7th Regiment, the New York National Guard, in which Robert Shaw served as a private. "As it swung out from Union Square into Broadway it was greeted with a roar which lasted all the way to the Battery, where it embarked, and Robert Shaw, the flank man of his platoon, was seized and kissed by man after man as they marched down Broadway." He was young, graceful, and handsome; every one liked him, every one trusted him implicitly. He was neither sentimental nor ostentatious, and did his full share...
...Mass. Regiment and was his close friend and comrade. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard in the class of '60 but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63, Governor Andrews gave him charge of the 54th Massachusetts, infantry. This regiment was the first colored regiment to be sent to the war, and at the end of May of the same year...