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...summer of 1862, it was feared that Washington, the capital, would be captured by the Confederates. Since the condition of national affairs was thus, S. S. Burr '63 conceived the idea of forming a company of cavalry composed of Dartmouth students. Governor Sprague of Rhode Island offered to accept the company for a three months campaign...
Three prize scholarship awards, two for Seniors and one for a member of the class of 1931, were announced at University Hall yesterday. W. B. Wood, Jr. '32, of Milton, is the recipient of the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, awarded for scholarship, athletic ability, and leadership. D. H. Popper '32, of White Plains, N. Y., receives the Charles J. Bonaparte Scholarship for the Senior having the highest academic standing in the field of Government. Sturtevant Burr '31, of Brookline, Massachusetts, a member of the first year class in the Law School, is awarded the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize which goes...
Wood, winner of the Burr Scholarship, prepared at Milton Academy. He is captain of the Harvard football team this fall. He holds sports letters in football, hockey, and baseball, is the ranking New England tennis player, president of his class, president of the Student Council, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the Junior Eight. The scholarship was established in memory of Francis H. Burr '09, by his friends. It is awarded to that undergraduate "who combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities." The recipient is selected in the middle of his third year by the Dean...
Sturtevant Burr, winner of the Saltonstall Prize, prepared at Brookline High School. He was a member of the Cross Country Team while in college, and graduated with the degree A.B. Magna cum Laude in English last June. The prize of $260, established in 1926 by the friends of Endicott Peabody Saltonstall. A. B. '94, LL.B '97, is "to be awarded by the Deans of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School to that Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School who shall be considered to be best fitted, by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced...
Jonathan Edwards College, for the famed Presbyterian theologian (1703-58). Graduated from Yale at 17, Edwards preached dogmatically, saved many a soul, wrote many a book. In 1757 he succeeded his son-in-law Aaron Burr (father of Traitor Aaron Burr) as president of Princeton University, died of smallpox inoculation in the following year. Princeton also reveres him, has an Edwards Street, an Edwards Hall...