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Isador Grossman '02, 1L., prepared for college at the Cleveland Central High School, where he was president of the Psi Omega Debating Society and commencement speaker in 1898. While at Harvard, he has always taken high rank in his studies, receiving a scholarship every year and being awarded a Detur in his Junior year. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He has taken an active interest in debating: in his Freshman year he was on the team which debated against the Sophomores; the next year he was on the Sophomores; the next year...
Frederick Gilbert Bauer, who will give the Latin salutatory on the subject of "The Cuban Teachers," lives in Jamaica Plain. He prepared for Harvard at the Boston Latin School, graduating with the Class of '97. Since entering College he has received a Detur and Highest Second Year Honors in Classics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society...
Henry Latimer Seaver, of Boston, will take as his Commencement part "Hawthorne and the Romance of the Present." He entered Harvard after graduating from the Boston Latin School with the Class of '96. Last year he was the recipient of a Sargent Prize; and he has also received a Detur and a George R. Sohier Prize. This year he was awarded Highest Final Honors in English. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Cotting was born in Arlington, Mass, in 1812. Entering college in 1830, he received a detur and belonged to the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Phi Beta Kappa. He gained the degrees of A. M. and M. D. in 1837 Immediately after this he began the practice of medicine in Boston. In 1841 he went abroad to pursue his studies and was made a member of medical societies in Rome and Athens. Upon his return in 1843 he was appointed curator of the Lowell Institute, which position he held until April of this year...
...recipients of Deturs, whose names are published in the CRIMSON this morning, are to be congratulated on the honorable record which they have made. To be in the group of the highest scholars at Harvard College is an honor that can not be too generally recognized. Though the Detur list is a more or less arbitrary one that can never be expected to include all who are the highest scholars in the highest sense, yet the honor ferred is a genuine one and is given to none who are not thoroughly worthy...