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Created under the will of Abiel Smith, who graduated from Harvard in the class of 1764, the Smith Professorship has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, J. D. M. Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann and others. Lida's appointment will be effective July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lida to Assume Professorship Of French, Spanish | 1/18/1968 | See Source »

...this point, the Holmes family took up residence in the person of the Reverend Abiel Holmes, whose father in law, Judge Wendell of the probate court, bought it for him and his recent bride. Like Eliphalet, though a gentler soul by far, the Reverend Holmes would have no Unitarian nonsense; and for this he lost his parish. During the early 1800s, the Commonwealth's churches were plagued with vicious internal schisms of this sort, and the Reverend Holmes did better than most when he took sixty parishioners with...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Holmes House | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

...likely to be regulars this season. Heffner is a young Baltimorean who last year fielded brilliantly and had a batting average of .293 with the Baltimore Orioles. His main worry is his weight, 155-lb.; to increase it last autumn he drank a quart of cream every day. Robert Abiel Rolfe comes from Penacook, N. H., graduated from Dartmouth in 1931, batted .326 for Newark last year, when he was voted most valuable player in the International League. Redhaired, ruddy-faced, his stance in the infield is characterized by a noticeable stoop, feet pointed directly at the home plate. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Maranville & Friends | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Much of Mr. Justice Holmes is explained by his ancestry?much not only of his age, but his ability. One of his grandfathers, Abiel Holmes, a New England clergyman and historian, lived to be 74. His other grandfather, Charles Jackson, who also served on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, lived to be 80. His father, Oliver Wendell senior, lived to be 85?to be exact, 85 years and 39 days. So Justice Holmes is not yet as old as his father, although he will soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Looking Ahead | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...offer to assume personally the cost of erecting the new library at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, on Morningside Heights, the site of the new Columbia College building. The building is to cost $1,000,000, and is to be a memorial to President Low's father, the late Abiel Abbot Low, "a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIFTS TO COLUMBIA. | 5/8/1895 | See Source »

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