Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Renshaw, the brother of the elder and more famous Renshaw. has injured his wrist and ankle so badly that he will not play tennis again for a year...
Prof. Bennett H. Nash of Harvard, with the assistance of his brother, Mr. F. P. Nash of Baltimore, has prepared and privately published a very readable monograph on the life and writings of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, who passed so many years in the United States diplomatic service, and who was also one of the wisest and clearest of American scholars in many departments of philosophy...
...cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel and John Adams; of the classes of 1740 and 1755, respectively. So active was Samuel Adams in behalf of the people that he was called by his opponents "Samuel the Publican." From 1765-'74 he was constantly at work organizing political clubs, delivering speeches and publishing articles...
...Rupert Sargent, formerly of the class of '84, was drowned during the month of August while yachting with three other gentlemen, one of whom was an older brother. The Yacht Mystery sailed from New Haven bound for Nantucket but was swamped near the reef known as the Hen and Chickens. All the passengers were lost. The Mystery was last seen by the sloop, Amelia Powell, as she was passing between Gooseberry neck and the Hen and Chickens on the morning of August 12. The following account of the probable manner of her loss is by one of the gentlemen...
...musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness...