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...most remarkable that ever graduated at Bowdoin. There were, among them, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who spelled his name Hathorne in college); Franklin Pierce, afterward President of the United States; Jonathan Cilley, who was shot, while a member Congress, in a duel, by Mr. Graves of Kentucky; George B. Cheever, a distinguished clergyman and author; Stephen Longfellow the eldest brother of the poet, rapidly rising to distinction at the bar, when his earthly career was cut short by death; John S. C. Abbott, a somewhat famous writer; James W. Bradbury, an able lawyer, who has been in the United States senate (Yale...
...treasurer, Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur with the fellows in the election of John Chipman Gray, A. M. L. L. B., as Royal professor of law, and in the appointment of Charles Herbert Williams, M. D., as instructor in Ophthalmology, and of Clarence Alonzo Cheever, B. A. S., M. D., as demonstrator of anatomy. Reports were made by the special committee on rhetoric and English literature; also by the committees to visit the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Lawrence scientific school and law school...
Life is under the management of Messrs. Mitchell, Miller and Martin. Among the contributors are W. J. Alden, author of "The Moral Pirates;" W. H. Bishop, "The House of the Merchant Prince;" J. Cheever Goodwin, "Evangeline;" Robert Grant, "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl;" A. A. Hayes, "A Symposium on the Chinese Question;" G. T. Lanigan, "Fables Out of the World;" G. P. Lathrop, "An Echo of Passion;" J. B. Matthews, "French Dramatists;" H. G. Paine, "All on a Summer's Day;" Arthur Penn, "The Rhymster;" J. S., of Dale, "Guerndale;" F. D. Sherman, "Her Portrait by Sarony;" J. T. Wheelwright...
...died before the commencement. I have recently seen a letter from President Allen to his father, written after his death, saying that he ranked second in his class. In that small recitation room we had Longfellow and Hawthorne, and Cilley and Little, and Abbott and Cheever, sitting side by side. - [James W. Bradbury before the Maine Historical Society...
Trinity College. - The first meeting of the Athletic Association of this college was held on May 25, and we append the results of the different races. Hundred-yards, J. D. Cheever, 10 3/4 sec.; mile-walk, L. Webster, 8 min. 46 sec.; running broad-jump, R. M. Campbell, 20 ft. 11 in.; half-mile run, F. G. Russell, 2 min. 33 sec.; three-legged race, Wilcox and Camp-bell, 16 1/4 sec.; quarter-mile run, E. D. Appleton, 58 sec.; running high-jump, F. G. Russell, 5 ft.; three-mile walk, L. Webster, 36 min.; 100-yard hurdle-race...