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Sereno Watson, Ph. D., the Curator of the Harvard Herbarium for the last eighteen years, died at his home on Shepard Street yesterday morning of an aggravated case of the grippe. Sereno Watson was born Dec. 1st, 1826, at East Windsor Hill, Conn. He graduated from Yale College in 1847, and spent the next few years in teaching in New England, Pennsylvania and New York. In 1856 he pursued the study of medicine with his brother Louis, but did not long continue in practice. For a few years just before the Civil war, he was interested in the Planters' Insurance...
...born in Farmington, Conn., in 1811. In 1831, he graduated from Yale and two years later became a tutor in the college. During these years he studied theology and in 1836, he became pastor of the Congregational Church at Milford. During the ten years following he had charge of several Congregational churches. In 1846 he returned to New Haven to take the chair of Clark professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy in the college. It was in 1853 that Yale sent him to Germany to study modern German philosophy. Five years later he received the degree of D. D. from...
Comenius was born on March 28, 1592, and was one of the greatest educational reformers that ever lived. Though living and writing in the seventeenth century, he was possessed with nineteenth century ideas and some of the forms which he sought to introduce into the schools of his time, are still urged by progressive educators, though only recently finding favor and adoption. The following extract from the English version of the proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France...
...Pellow was the eldest son of Henry E. Pellow, who is a cousin of Viscount Exmouth and brother-in-law, as well as cousin, of the present Viscount Sidmouth. His mother was a sister of John Jay. He was born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned...
...bringing material as well as economic wealth to this country. They easily amalgamate and grow in sympathy with our laws and institutions. Anarchism and pauperism are the exceptions which can be dealt with by law. Corruption in politics, so unjustly traced to the immigrants, is instigated by natural-born Americans and by political bosses. Moreover restriction of immigration is in-inconsistent with our idea of liberty and democracy and by prohibiting, because of the few bad cases we do a great injustice to the by far greater part of worthy, well-seeking people who in this country seok refuge from...