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This class, which numbered 115 men and was one of the earliest to pass the 100 mark, contained many notable men, of whom the following named, twenty-five in number, are now alive: John Bigelow, Charles Lee Bixby, Allan Foster Boone, Herman Francis Brashear, Elihu Chauncey, John Doggett Cobb, Charles Alonzo Cooper, Frank Warren Hackett, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Alpheus Holmes Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, David Francis Lincoln, Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, James Rundlet May, George Herman Powers, John Ritchie, Wesley Caleb Sawyer, Joseph Herbert Senter, Edward William Sanborn, James Kent Stone, Richard Stone, Charles Storrow, James Putnam Walker, Stephen Williams Whitney...
...return for a moment to the Hague court, one of the most important instances of the triumph of Mr. Taft's administration over those obstacles is that supplied by the work of The Hague tribunal having brought before it the fisheries question between the United States and Great Britain. Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of War and of State, and now United States Senator from New York, has rendered many and great services to his country; and among these great services is that which he rendered last summer when in charge of the American case at The Hague. Nor was this...
...derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct of the misguided men who advocate such policies stands in the most striking contrast to work like that of Elihu Root at The Hague last summer, work which represented in the highest sense applied morality because it represented the successful performance of that most difficult feat, the efficient putting into practice in any concrete case of the principles which must obtain if we are ultimately to establish justice, achieved through...
...Elihu Thomson, prolific in research and invention; a magician who by the witcheraft of science has subdued electricity to the service...
Yale Crew Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 9, 1909.--The Yale university and freshman crew squads arrived here late this afternoon and immediately went to their quarters. The launch "Elihu Yale" was in readiness and the shells were all rigged for the men, but the crews were unable to go out on account of the heavy rain. D. M. Baker, 1911 S., was elected captain of the freshman eight...