Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dean G. Z. Gray presiding, the following officers were elected: President, James Russell Lowell; vice-presidents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John G. Whittier, Charles W. Eliot, Stanton Blake, E. N. Horsford; secretary, Arthur Gilman; treasurer, Benjamin Vaughn; committee on plans, James R. Lowell, Asa Gray, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Van Brunt, John Trowbridge, W. P. P. Longfellow; board of directors, James Russell Lowell, Arthur Gilman, Benjamin Vaughn, William Eustis Russell, Francis C. Foster, James B. Ames, H. P. Walcott, William Lawrence, Samuel L. Montague, Alexander McKenzie, H. E. Scudder, George Zabriskie Gray, T. W. Higginson, Charles E. Norton, J. G. Thorp...
...Friday morning Herald gives a column to an account of a recent glove contest in New York, between Mr. John Roosevelt, of the Union club, who recently graduated from Oxford, and won the heavy-weight championship while there, and Mr. Rutgers Van Brunt, of the Kuickerbocker club. The latter gentleman is a graduate of Harvard, class of '80, and, while here, enjoyed an enviable reputation as a sparer. The match was made to decide the championship of the two universities. The referee declared the contest a draw, but, as Mr. Roosevelt was unable to come to time in the last...
There is a great deal of work to be done this year before we can win the championship, and the college must do its share by turning out to applaud the men in their practice. The brunt of the work, however, has to be done by the team, and done faithfully. They must not allow themselves to be satisfied with the applause of the college, that is meant to encourage them to greater exertions. They should aim at perfection only, and should be far from satisfied with a game like Saturday's. They certainly played brilliantly then, and made...
...number of students using the library is very large in proportion to the number of volumes in the collection. It has thus far been deemed impracticable to allow the books to be taken away from the building, and consequently a large reading room was indispensable. Mr. Van Brunt, of Boston, who had the advantage of experience in remodeling the Harvard library building, was employed as the architect, and the result is probably in many respects the most interesting university library building in the country. The predominant feature of it is the semi-circular reading-room. This room is admirably lighted...
From the same source we learn "that all designs for windows to be placed in Memorial Hall must be satisfactory to Prof. William R. Ware and Henry Van Brunt, Esq., the architects of the building, but that the corporation wish to adhere to the original plan, which allowed figures to be either typical or historical. That Messrs. Ware and Van Brunt are requested to prepare, for the use of the class committees, rules in relation to the design and execution of windows, and to send a copy thereof to the board...