Word: dunster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire of every Harvard man to do his utmost to insure the preservation of Harvard's leadership among American universities. Since the founding of the College in 1636, this leadership has been bound up inseparably with a tradition rich in the names of great teachers and illustrious graduates. From Dunster and Mather descends an unbroken line of famous professors down to Peirce, Longfellow, Gray, Norton, Shaler, Agassiz, Palmer, James, and Briggs. Graduates like Jonathan Trumbull, John Quincy Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, have carried throughout the civilized world Harvard thought and Harvard...
...expected that workmen will start installing the Georgian system, similar to that in the Dunster Street restaurant, on Monday morning so that the place can be opened for business the first week in February...
...Frenchman's work, "The Great Testament", which is now listed for future publication by B. J. Brimmer. It is the third volume published by Beebe in recent years, his other works being "Fallen Stars," and "Corydon and Other Poems." A few copies are on sale at the Dunster House Book Shop...
...ancient set of College regulations shows most clearly the paternal attitude of the first Harvard presidents as regards the eating habits of the College. Certain orders by the scholars and officers of the College to be observed, dated March 28, 1650, and signed by President Dunster, shows the eating problem to have been a vital issue almost 300 years...
There is the copy of President Dunster's Hebrew and Greek Bible, printed by Plantin in Antwerp in 1573-74, and used by him during the presidency of Harvard College from 1640 to 1654. His bookplate, in Greek, is pasted at the foot of the title page and is dated 1633, indicating that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Bible was presented to the Library in 1841 by the Misses Dunster, daughters of Rev. Isaiah Dunster, of the class of 1741, a great grandson of Henry Dunster, the first president...