Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Temple, N. H.; ivy orator, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, of Worcester; chorister, Clarence Walter Ayer, of Haverhill; class day committee, Samuel Ellsworth Winslow, of Worcester, John Joslin Colony, of Keene, Frederic Adrian Delano, of Newburg, N. Y.; class committee, William Henry Baldwin, Jr., of Boston, Otto Rheinhard Hansen, of Milwaukee, Benjamin Bowditch Thayer, of New York; photographic committee, McDonald Ellis White, of Boston, Marland Cogswell Hobbs, of Brookline, Arthur Gordon Webster, of Newton...
...fire and shrinkage in value, and other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about $640,000 to Columbia College. J. B. Trevor gave...
...valuable gift just made to the library of Michigan University, is that of the printed translations from 1832 to 1884 of the American Philosophical Society. The library set from the foundation of the society by Benjamin Franklin is thus completed...
...summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study were recited to the late Joseph Back-minister, who was at that time a tutor in the academy...
Every now and then, here in Oxford, we pass famous men on the street, and it seems as natural as the sight of ordinary men elsewhere. Benjamin Jowett, the translator of Plato and the Vice Chancellor of the University, Max Muller, the greatest living writer on comparative religion ; Cannon Liddon, the first preacher in the English church; Principal Shairp, the another of "Culture and Religion ;" John Ruskin, Bonamy Price, and a host of others equally distinguished, attract but little attention. But having said so much for Oxford, patriotism leads me to add one word more. I believe that the average...