Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard College H. S. Freedman '08, Sales A. T. French '07, Harvard College C. Gallardo '09, Bright J. E. Gardner, Jr., '08, Harvard College I. Gerber '07, Harvard College P. L. Gile '07, Bigelow H. Goepper '09, Harvard College G. C. Good '09, Bowditch R. B. Goodell '08, Benjamin D. Greene L. Grandgent '09, Harvard College F. E. Greene '07, Rebecca A. Perkins L. Harrison '07, Harvard College K. B. Hawkins '08, Harvard College H. C. Hayes '07, Bartlett N. Hedin '08, Burr G. F. Hoysradt '09, Bowditch E. B. Hughes '08, 1-2 John Appleton Haven W. E. Ingalis...
...celebration is given by the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the country. It was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, for the propagation of useful knowledge. Franklin was the first secretary of the society and later became its president...
Dean Irwin of Radcliffe has just received the honorary degree of LL.D. "in absentia" from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Seldom has such a degree been awarded from St. Andrews, the candidate usually being compelled to receive his degree in person. It is noteworthy that Dr. Benjamin Franklin, from whom Miss Irwin is directly descended, received a similar degree from St. Andrews among the first honors that were bestowed upon him. The hood and diploma will be sent to this country by a special representative, who will attend the Franklin bi-centenary to be held in Philadelphia from April...
Professor Peirce was the son of Benjamin Peirce '21, who was also Perkins Professor, and a famous mathematician. He was born in Cambridge, May 1, 1834, twelve days after the birth of President Eliot, and graduated from Harvard College in 1853, in the same class with the President, taking his degree of Master of Arts in 1856. At this time he intended to become a Unitarian clergyman and six years after taking his degree of A. B., graduated from the Divinity School, which at that time gave no degree. Professor Peirce did not follow this plan, however, but spent...
Scribner's--"Letters and Diaries of George Bancroft" '17, edited by M. A. DeW. Howe '87; "Benjamin Frankling," by J. H. Choate '52; "The Day and Hour," by R. W. Glider...