Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Captain Collin of the Crew is ill, so Captain Cook may row in his place...
...eminent as an authority on the subject of railroads. Professor Henry Adams, formerly editor of the North American Review, was in the class of '58. Mr. John Fiske, whose exposition of the Spencerian philosophy the Atlantic regards as more charming than Mr. Spencer's own, graduated in '63. Joseph Cook, after Professor Park, the foremost man of that school of theology, graduated as late as '65. Mr. Millett, now rising into eminence as an artist, was in the class of '69; and Henry James, whom the best critics have given a place among our first novelists graduated...
...CAPTAIN COOK has been spending a few days in Boston. He speaks very highly of the style in which the Harvard crew is rowing. Mr. Dana, their coach, has recently visited England, and under his training the men show great improvement over their work of last year. They give promise of being an excellent eight, and the contest will undoubtedly be of unusual interest. - Record...
BEFORE, Harvard indifference was the target at which he shot his blunt arrows; now it is the non-attendance of students at the lectures of the Rev. Joseph Cook. If it were only Mr. Cook and his lectures to which he wished to call our attention, he might be excused; but our agitator cannot do this without impeaching Harvard College of snubbing a genius, Cambridge of "Miss Nancyism," the Nation of making mistakes (!), and himself of ignorance...
...writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...