Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fact that the suggestion of giving colors to the cruiser was so enthusiastically received as to bring contributions to more than twice the total needed, is enough to prove that there is no indifference here, and all who heard the words of the President, of Colonel Higginson, and of Professor Shaler, will agree that in them we find expression of true Harvard opinion...
...Dekker the author of the play. It is as follows: "Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which passed in Eyre's house; his coming...
...promises to be of special interest. The question is "Resolved, That the United States should abandon its policy of international isolation." The speakers are: Affirmative-H. K. Brent, J. H. Cooper, W. C. Dennis; negative-C. Grilk, G. L. Patterson, R. W. Stover. The judges will be Colonel T. W. Higginson, Professor Beale and Dr. Coolidge. After Professor Baker's criticism of the debate, Colonel Higginson will give a brief talk on debating. Those interested in debating are especially invited...
Thackeray's immortal description of Colonel Newcome's death comes to me as I think of our friend Marshall Newell, "And lo, he whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name and stood in the presence of his Master...
General Albert Ordway, the famous army officer, who died Sunday evening at the Hoffman House, New York, was a student of the Lawrence Scientific School when the Civil War broke out, and left College to enlist. He obtained a colonel's commission at the age of 21, and had a brilliant war record...