Word: everetts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p.m. Rev. Edward Everett Hale...
...large audience assembled in Sanders last evening to hear Maj-Gen Crook's lecture on our Western Indians. Rev. Edward Everett Hale introduced the speaker, and said that Gen. Crook had been connected with the U. S. Army for many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this...
...first college journal ever published at Harvard appeared in the month of July, 1810, and was known as the "Harvard Lyceum." Its editors, among whom were Edward Everett and Samuel Gilman, the author of "Fair Harvard," written for the centennial celebration in 1836, were all members of the class of 1811. The magazine appeared semi-monthly and was devoted to the discussion of such abstruse and heavy subjects that it was unable to maintain any popularity with the students and died after the short existence of one year. The last number, which appeared in March, 1811, contained a farewell address...
...EVERETT ATHENAEUM.The origin of this society was very similar to that of the Pi Eta. In 1867, the size of the sophomore class demanded that there should be more than one sophomore society. The Institute of 1770 had grown to occupy a position of monopoly which was distasteful to some, and it needed the stimulus of a vigorous rival. With the purpose of organizing such a rival, a petition was circulated in 1867, which, with the names of half the class thereon, was presented to and approved by the faculty. As it was too late in the year to make...
President Everett did not fancy the proceedings of this boisterous club of tars and in 1851 the last excursion was made in the bay. Following is the organization of the navy in the year before its dissolution: "At present the Navy Club is organized after the parts for the last senior exhibition have been assigned. It is composed of three classes of persons, namely, the true Navy, which consists of those who have never had parts; the Marines, those who have a major or second part in the senior year, but no minor or first part in the junior year...