Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Delegates to Congress, picnickers, etc.: The Misses H. Conant, A. Gill, E. Keppie, N. May. Messrs. H. R. Bowser '12, M. W. Cox '11, J. D. Donovan '10, R. F. Duncan '12, F. M. Eliot '11, J. C. Feslier 1L., M. H. Horblit '09, S. J. Horvitz 1L., J. C. Jones 1L., H. W. Miller '12, H. Potter '10, A. R. Pottier '09, R. M. Shaw '10, L. C. Stowell '12, H. Wilcox...
...this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress. His chief fault was his inability to free himself from the influences about him. The rise of President Roosevelt to power has been entirely due to his aggressiveness. Mr. Wise's acquaintance with the next President, William H. Taft, began when Mr. Taft was a judge in Cincinnati...
...bearer of the last despatch from the general to Jefferson Davis. In 1867 he received his degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved to New York to practice law. Mr. Wise has written several books on different subjects...
...Field, late instructor in biology at Johns Hopkins University, will speak on the cultivation of molluscs. Rabbi Phineas Isreali, of the congregation Adath Jeshurun, will open the afternoon session with a prayer. The construction of highways will be treated by Harold Parker, delegate to the international congress on road building at Paris. James M. MacDonald, president of the American Roadmakers Association, will speak on the necessity of co-operation between states in the construction of state roads, in order that trunk lines may be made between important cities. The final paper will be read by Hon N. J. Batchelder...
...enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender in 1865. He carried the last message from Lee to President Davis. After the war, Mr. Wise returned to the University and was graduated in 1867. Fourteen years later he was elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket, soon after he ran for governor, but was defeated. Since 1885 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York and has written books on several subjects...