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...McCosh was born near the country village of Patnad, in Airshire, Scotland, April 11, 1811. He attended the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and by an essay on Stoic Philosophy he was awarded, upon the recommendation of Sir William Hamilton, the degree...
...Holmes was born in Cambridge on the twenty-ninth of August, 1809, and lived in the old house which formerly occupied the site of the present Gymnasium. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Harvard in 1825. At his graduation he delivered the commencement poem, and was one of the sixteen members chosen into the Phi Beta Kappa...
Professor Cooke was born in Boston, October 12, 1827. He entered Harvard College in 1845 and graduated with the class of '48. In 1849 he was appointed an instructor and a year later was elected to the Erving professorship which he held at the time of his death. He married Miss Mary Huntington who survives him. They had no children...
...Snow was born in Palmyra, New York. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted and was in active service until wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill...
Professor Whitney was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1827 and graduated from Williams in 1845. He first engaged in business, giving his leisure time to the study of languages, particularly Sanskrit. These studies he continued later at Yale and in Europe. In 1854 he became professor of Sanskrit at Yale, and in 1870 took the chair of Comparative Philology. He has become widely known by his German text books and his contributions to periodical literature. He edited the Century Dictionary...