Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Died last week in Ashtabula, O., of consumption, Abner Ernest Strong, A. B., 1885. The deceased will be remembered by his classmates and friends as an excellent scholar, genial, ambitious and energetic in disposition, and of consistent Christian character. Coming to college with but meagre preparation, he at once took high rank for scholarship, which he maintained throughout the course. After graduation he accepted a position as instructor in Groton Academy, but rapidly failing health soon compelled him to retire. The class whose number is now for the first time since graduation broken, loses one of its most promising members...
Regular Disputants: Affirmative, Norman F. Hesseltine, '88, Ernest B. Crenoweth. '88. - Negative, - Elmer E. Shoemaker. '89, James H. Proctor...
...Ernest Renshaw wishes to acknowledge the receipt of a racquet strung with india rubber strings. Owing to the absence of any name he has been unable to express his thanks to the donor. He also regrets he is not able to form any opinion of the value of the invention, as only two strings remained in the racquet when he received it. - Pastime...
Oration by Edward Terry Sanford; Poem by George Read Nutter; Ivy oration by Ernest Laurence Thayer; Ode by Joseph Adna Hill. Sanders Theatre...
...Binghampton, N. Y.; first marshal, John Eliot Thayer, of Boston; second marshal, James Jackson Storrow, Jr., of Boston; third marshal, Charles Heath Atkinson, of Brookline; orator, Edward Terry Sanford, of Knoxville, Tenn.; poet, George Read Nutter, of Boston; odist, Joseph Adna Hill, of Temple, N. H.; ivy orator, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, of Worcester; chorister, Clarence Walter Ayer, of Haverhill; class day committee, Samuel Ellsworth Winslow, of Worcester, John Joslin Colony, of Keene, Frederic Adrian Delano, of Newburg, N. Y.; class committee, William Henry Baldwin, Jr., of Boston, Otto Rheinhard Hansen, of Milwaukee, Benjamin Bowditch Thayer, of New York; photographic committee...