Word: dedham
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...President from 1700 to 1707. Five of them were, at one time or another, Boston ministers,--John Cotton, Samuel Mather, Increase Mather, Thomas Thacher, and Samuel Willard,--while Thomas Shepard and Urian Oakes were settled in Cambridge, Hugh Peters in Salem, Richard Mather in Dorchester, and William Adams in Dedham. Seven of the authors were graduates of Harvard College; namely, Samuel Mather, 1643; Urian Oakes, 1649; Leonard Hoar, 1650; Increase Mather and Eleazar Mather, 1656; Samuel Willard, 1659; and William Adams, 1671. Six of them were also Fellows of the College at different times...
Several of the pamphlets bear the autograph of William Adams, who graduated from the College in 1671, and was afterwards settled in Dedham, where he died in 1685. An inscription on the pamphlet, "God's Terrible Voice in the City of London, wherein you have the Narration of the Two late dreadful Judgements of Plague and Fire inflicted by the Lord upon that City," shows that it was bought of a printer. Samuel Green, February 29, 1667, at which time Adams was a Freshman in College. The volume was bound in its present form by William Adams's son, Eliphalet...
Newton High School was awarded the championship shield for winning the greatest number of matches. The score was, Newton High School, 9; Volkmann, 8; Boston Latin School, 7; Andover, 6; Wellesley High School, 6; Brookline High School, 5; Dedham High School, 3; Exeter, 2; Brown and Nichols...
...standing of the schools in the interscholastic tennis tournament, as a result of the matches played yesterday is as follows: Newton High School, 9; Volkmann, 7; Andover, 6; Wellesley High School, 6; Boston Latin School, 5; Brookline High School, 4; Dedham High School, 3; Exeter, 2; Brown and Nichols...
...seventeenth annual interscholastic tennis tournament was begun on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon, and will continue daily until finished. Nine schools entered the tournament, and at the close of the play yesterday, their standing was as follows: Volkmann, 7; Newton High School, 4; Andover, 4; Boston Latin School, 3; Dedham High School, 3; Browne and Nichols', 2; Exeter, 1; Wellesley High School, 1; Brookline High School...