Word: bancrofts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of how the young man happened to come to Harvard is one of exceptional interest to Harvard men. It began in a letter written in 1847 by Edward Everett, then President of the University, to George Bancroft who was at his post as minister to Great Britain, a post which President Everett himself had previously filled. In that letter President Everett asked Mr. Bancroft to deliver some books--including a set of Quincy's "History of Harvard"--to Rev. John Harvard of Plymouth, England, whom President Everett spoke of as "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor at the beginning...
...country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers or professors...
...Thursday morning the squad went to Annapolis, where it was entertained at the Naval Academy. The team made its headquarters at Bancroft Hall and took its meals at the Navy training table. Practice was held on the Navy track Thursday afternoon, but unfavorable weather again made anything but light work impossible. The men were given a rest on Friday, as a dual track meet with Annapolis was scheduled for Saturday. However, owing to a severe wind and rain storm, the meet was declared off after the first event, the 100-yard dash. In this event, P. G. M. Austin...
...already assured, he gave as the greatest need of the Department of Chemistry in the University. Speeches were made by other guests as follows: "Association of Harvard Chemists," J. D. Pennock '83, of the Solvay Process Company, Syracuse, N. Y.; "The Chemistry of the Future," Professor W. D. Bancroft '88, of Cornell University; "Chemistry at Harvard 40 Years Ago," Professor C. E. Monroe '71, of George Washington University; "Description of the Proposed New Laboratories," Professor T. W. Richards '86, of the Harvard Chemistry Department; "The Application of Electricity to Chemical Processes," E. R. Taylor '68, of Penn...
...Young's Hotel, Boston, this evening at 7.15 o'clock. Mr. J. D. Pennock '83, of the Solvay Process Company, Syracuse, N. Y., the temporary chairman of the association, will preside. The speakers will be Mr. H. W. Wiley '73, Chief Chemist of the United States; Professor Wilder D. Bancroft '88, of Cornell; Professor C. E. Munroe '71, of George Washington University; Dr. Morris Loeb '83, of New York City. It is expected that there will be about 150 present...