Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Samuel Eliot then alluded to the fact that when Colonel Sever was in college he was only saved from being "rusticated" by the interference of the President, and thus the Sever bequest was insured. He recommended the matter to President Eliot as a good result of easy discipline. Turning to Governor Rice, he said, "I shall enter upon no encomium to Massachusetts. Here she stands, and here she sits...
...good judging from the way in which that classmate of mine is devouring it. There is a charm in a hall like this; and the worthies who look down upon one from the walls are inspiring, - all of them, from the driest, pickled old Puritan, to the gallant young Colonel who fell at Wagner. There is richness in that gorgeous window, - but stop! the national bird done in colored glass, and holding his wings like a fowl in distress, is decidedly out of place there, if a Freshman might venture an opinion; he should have been all blue glass. Patriotic...
...next Tuesday evening President McCosh, of Princeton, will deliver a lecture before the Inter-collegiate Association on "The importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association. For four years this Association has been before the public, and every year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only...
...Freshman reading for the Lee Prizes took place in Boylston Hall on Wednesday evening. The committee consisted of Colonel Henry Lee, Professor J. B. Thayer, Professor B. F. Tweed, Professor C. F. Dunbar, Samuel S. Shaw, U. H. Crocker, Professor A. S. Hill, Professor S. Baxter, George W. C. Noble, and John P. Hopkinson. First prizes, of forty dollars each, were awarded to C. Guild and C. W. Lane; and second prizes, of thirty dollars each, to E. L. Went-worth and A. L. Wheeler...
Cornell.- Colonel T. W. Higginson will be the leading orator of Commencement week...