Word: deturs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...cheerful, interested in club work, and at the same time a good worker. He was one of the organizers of the Banjo Club, an editor of the Advocate, and a member of the Pudding and O. K. And although so much with his fellow students he got a Detur in his freshman year, and graduated with honorable mention, and the degree-cum Laude. The memorial service held at his church on Monday, where there were present so many men showed only too clearly how he was esteemed here at Harvard...