Word: alden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college is notably fortunate in the matter of free scholarships, the present number being sixty-five. A gift of $40,000 has just been received by the college for the establishment of a professorship to be called the "Emma Speare Huntington Professorship," after the daughter of the donor, Hon. Alden Spear...
Boston University has just received $40, 000 from the Hon. Alden Speare to endow a professorship in the college of Liberal Arts...
...Washington Harvard Club has perfected an organization by the election of the following officers: President, George Bancroft; vice-presidents, John A. King, Henry Adams, Jesse Brown, C. W. McDonaid, A. A. Hayes; secretary, George B. Loring; treasurer Andrew H. Alden. The club will give its first annual dinner on the second Wednesday in February...
...Boston superciliousness in the contrary assertion. As a matter of fact, Life has had comparatively little college favor, though largely written by college graduates; and some of the best things which have appeared in it have come from outsiders - such as Mr. G. T. Lanigan and Mr. W. L. Alden." All of which may be very effective with the scoffing Philistines of the outside world and with jealous New Yorkers as an advertisement for Life, but we must think it to be in questionable taste appearing in the columns of Life itself. By appealing to sectional jealousy and popular prejudice...
Life is under the management of Messrs. Mitchell, Miller and Martin. Among the contributors are W. J. Alden, author of "The Moral Pirates;" W. H. Bishop, "The House of the Merchant Prince;" J. Cheever Goodwin, "Evangeline;" Robert Grant, "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl;" A. A. Hayes, "A Symposium on the Chinese Question;" G. T. Lanigan, "Fables Out of the World;" G. P. Lathrop, "An Echo of Passion;" J. B. Matthews, "French Dramatists;" H. G. Paine, "All on a Summer's Day;" Arthur Penn, "The Rhymster;" J. S., of Dale, "Guerndale;" F. D. Sherman, "Her Portrait by Sarony;" J. T. Wheelwright...