Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps the most popular numbers of the evening were those given by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart. The former is well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there...
...From Colonel Carter of Cartersville-Frank Hopkinson Smith...
Spencer Eddy '95 has been appointed private secretary to Colonel John Hay, United States Ambassador to Great Britain...
...monument to Colonel Robert G. Shaw of the fifty-fourth Massachusetts, which has been for many years in preparation, is at last to be put up on Boston Common. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard with the class of '60, but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army just before the before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National guards. He soon exchanged to the second Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor Andrew gave him the command of the fifty-fourth...
...years after the war private subscriptions were taken up with the purpose of erecting a monument to Colonel Shaw's memory. The City of Boston gave a piece of ground on the Park St. end of the Common, opposite the State house, as a site for the monument. Mr. St. Gaudens was chosen as sculptor...