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...Elliott became general freight agent for the four roads of the Burlington system and five years later he was advanced to the general managership of the system. Since 1903 he has been in his present position...
...Corporation of the University, left Cambridge late Friday night for Washington. D. C. where he has both personal and college business to attend to. It is uncertain how long this business will keep him in Washington, but, at the completion of it, he will go west to Burlington, lowa, to arrange about the Charles Eliot Perkins Scholarships which were presented to the University early this fall by Mrs. Perkins. Mr. Greene will be gone about two weeks...
...order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take charge of a newly constructed railroad at Burlington. Coming east again he took charge of some iron mills in Maryland, where he remained till he enlisted. As captain in the sixth Massachusetts cavalry he was ordered to Virginia, where he was given a place in General McClellan's staff. After the battle of Antietam, Colonel Lowell received...
Charles Perkins in later life was a great railroad owner, but as a young man could not afford to go to college, as his mother depended upon him for support. As the successor of Charles Lowell in the control of the railroad at Burlington, he received his first experience in railroading. It was upon his advice that the first line across the state of Iowa was built. Throughout his career he always commanded respect for himself and his road by consideration and kindness for all those with whom he came in contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank...
...University second baseball team will play the University of Vermont this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Burlington. The team will return to Boston by the night train, arriving at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Innings, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harvard 2nd, 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0--5 Norwich...