Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...FRIDAY.Class Day Exercises. Prayer by Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D. Oration Edward Terry Sanford, of Knoxville, Tenn. Poem by George Read Nutter, of Boston. Ivy Oration by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, of Worcester. Ode by Joseph Adna Hill, of Temple, N. H. Sanders Theatre...
...Edward Everett Hale is at work on a new book, "Franklin in France...
...chair. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in the following appointment: Francis Greenwood Peabody, A. M., D. B., acting dean of the Divinity School for 1885-86; Harold Broadfield Warren, instructor in drawing for 1885 6; Harold Whiting, Ph. D., instructor in physics; Lewis Edward Gates, A. B., instructor in forensics for 1885-86; Charles Joye White, A. M., professor of mathematics. The special committee on instruction in written English read their report by Mr. Story. It was voted "that this board, with no intention of criticising the gentlemen in charge of the English department, hereby...
...Savage, the distinguished antiquarian, visited England, and, assisted by Edward Everett, at that time the American minister, made what was thought to be an exhaustive search for records of John Harvard. Mr. Savage's efforts were so fruitless that, although $100 were offered for each of five lines giving information about him, nothing new was discovered. Mr. Henry Waters, the agent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, has since taken up the work, and by most assiduous labor has found what he thinks will lead to the dissipation of the mist which has so long overhung the early life...
Illustrated Lectures. Historical Sites and Monuments of England and France. Special subject: The period from the accession of Henry II. to Edward III. continued. Prof. J. P. Cooke. Boylston Hall, 7.45 P. M. Members of the University admitted without tickets...