Word: everetts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...EVERETT ATHENAEUM. There will be a special meeting of the society this evening, at 7.45, in the old rooms...
...EVERETT ATHENAEUM. There will be a meeting of the society to-night, at 7.45, in the old rooms...
...last meeting of the Everett Athenaeum, the following officers were elected: president, C. H. Moore; vice-president, E. C. Bates; secretary, F. B. Jacobs; treasurer, C. L. Case; stage-manager, J. W. Merrill; chorister, H. D. Sleeper...
...Harrison Gray Otis, the elected President of the day, was prevented by a sudden domestic bereavement from attending the Celebration, and in his absence, Edward Everett presided at the dinner of the alumni...
...When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Edward Everett, the President of the day, rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect of his own unrivalled declamation, his fancy seemed to burst away...