Word: aug
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commencement, Aug. 25, 1830, twenty-four of the forty-eight members of Sumner's class were awarded parts. Sumner's was an inferior part, but all that his standing in the regular course admitted. Sixteen of the forty-eight were elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sumner was not one of the sixteen, but he belonged to the Hasty Pudding Club, and when a senator, was accustomed to send books to its library. Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Emery, of Newburyport, writes of Sumner: "He never studied, as many young men do, for college honors, but for love of study...
...then took up Pope's charge that Porter wilfully kept his troops out of the contest, although he knew that his force was needed. This was founded entirely on wrong assumptions, viz., that Porter had advanced as far as the Gap, and that a terrific battle took place on Aug. 29th...
...hundred and nineteenth call of bonds of the five per cent. funded loan of 1881, continued at three and one-half per cent. from Aug. 12, 1881, has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury...
...this summer, at Bar Harbor, Me., G. S. Winslow, '83, won the first, and G. W. Beals, '83, the second prize. G. W. Beals, '83, won the first prize in another tournament held at the same place the first week in September. In the tournament at Cottage City, held Aug. 15, 16, and 17, E. K. Butler, Jr., '83, won the second prize in the singles, and E. K. Butler, Jr., '83, with Mr. Woodman, of Jamacia Plain, won the first prize in the doubles. In the tournament at Newport, the first week in September, for the championship...
...invested funds of the University amounted, on Aug. 31, 1879, to $3,902,181.73, the income of which for the current year...