Word: esq
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Union has recently received from W. T. Davis, Esq., of Plymouth, a journal of the meetings of the first Harvard Union, a debating society which existed from 1832 to 1839. The first entry in the journal informs us that "on February 17th, 1832, certain members of the senior and junior classes assembled to consider the expediency of establishing a society for improvement in the art of addressing considerable audiences, and a committee of five was appointed to draw up a constitutio." At the first regular meeting of society, February 24th, a constitution was adopted and the following officers were...
...Jewlian Moneymaker, Esq., Dr., Sept. '83.-Putting down carpets, $5.00 Sept. '83-Jan. '84.-Taking care of fire...
John C. Ropes, Esq., will deliver an informal lecture to members of History 15 on Napoleon Buonaparte, a week from Thursday in Dr. Channing's room...
...lecture which will be given this evening by Edmund W. Gosse, Esq., of Cambridge University, England, deserves to be attended by a large and appreciative audience. The students of Harvard seldom have the opportunity of hearing the noted lecturers who come to this country; but when such opportunity is offered, everyone should avail himself of it, and not let the occasion slip by. The Historical society, one of the few live societies of the college, has shown commendable activity in making all the arrangements for this lecture. To this society we owe whatever pleasure and instruction we may receive from...
...course of erection. During the summer of 1883, the Hon. Edward Ashton Rollins of Philadelphia proposed to build a chapel at the cost of $30,000, provided that twice that amount should be raised from some source for a library. In the mean while, Halsey J. Boardman, Esq., late of Providence, R. I., informed the trustees that it would be in accordance with the known wishes of that gentleman that his legacy of $50,000, when paid, should be used for the erection of a library building. The proposition was satisfactory to Mr. Rollins. The library is of brick...