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...Forbes was born on Nov. 1st, 1840. He was the son of J. M. Forbes and the brother of J. Malcolm Forbes. In college he was a classmate of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Col. N. P. Hallowell, W. P. Garrison and H. P. Bowditch. He left college during his first Junior term and entered business in Boston in '61. In December of the same year he was given a commission in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. In 1865 he married Miss Edith Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was engaged in active business in Boston until...
Professor Allen was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1844. After graduating at Oberlin College in 1863, he studied for several years at the University of Leipsic. In 1866 he became a professor at the University of Tennessee. He left that institution to accept a professorship in the University of Cincinnati and was called from there to a chair at Yale. After a short stay at Yale he accepted in 1880 the chair of classical philology at Harvard, which he held at the time of his death...
Theodore Lyman, third of that name, was born in Boston in 1833 and entered Harvard in 1851. After graduation he studied three years under Agassiz, and in 1858 received the degree of B. A. He was always devoted to the study of science, particularly to natural history, and was a prominent benefactor and promoter of the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...Born in Charlestown in 1823, Professor Lane graduated at Harvard in 1846. After graduation he taught at college for a year and then went abroad, where he studied for four years at the Universities of Berlin and Gottingen, taking the degree of Ph. D. from the latter institution. On his return to Cambridge in 1851, he was appointed professor of Latin and later on he was elected Pope professor of Latin...
John W. Rice was born in Rockland, Mass., and fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, from which he graduated in '87. In college he took second-year honors in classics, and received honorable mention in Greek. After graduating "cum laude" in '91, he went abroad for a year, and studied at the University of Berlin. On returning to this country he went through the three years theological course at Yale, graduating in '95. Since this time he has been at the Harvard Divinity School. He will stay here another year, as a candidate for the Ph. D. degree...