Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...franchise requirements. The Freshmen showed that Great Britain had neither special rights under the conventions nor general rights in international law to interfere, and that the Transvaal was willing to make some concessions. Williams' speech in rebuttal was the best of the evening. The judges were General Rockwood Hoar, Colonel Samuel E. Winslow, and Honorable Charles G. Washburn. W. M. Chadbourne '00 has been coaching the team...
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., have recently published a book by Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, entitled "Contemporaries." The volume is a valuable series of sketches, most of which have been previously published in magazines, of famous men and women contemporary with Colonel Higginson. Among the best known names are those of Emerson, Whittier, Grant, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, and Theodore Parker. Colonel Higginson, in his simple and graceful style, has treated his subjects not as historical figures, but as living men and women. The sketches of Ulysses S. Grant, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker are thoughtful and appreciative, and the reminiscences...
...which he served in this position, he came in contact with a most remarkable set of boys. A few of them were Mayor Quincy of Boston, Rev. Dr. J. W. Thayer of the Divinity School, J. Q. Adams, Russell Sturgis, Professor J. B. Greenough, Robert Treat Paine, Sr., Colonel H. L. Higginson, Justin Winsor, Phillips Brooks, and President Eliot...
...gift of Colonel Trowbridge of New Haven, Yale has received a large endowment fund, the income of which will be applied to the establishment of a course of public lectures on art by representative artists...
...Tufts College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold a meeting in Goddard Chapel, Tufts College, on Tuesday, June 14, at 3.30 p. m. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson will be the orator and Professor David Lee Maulsby, A. M., of Tufts College, the poet. The Harvard Chapter is invited to attend...