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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Father's name, profession or business, and present residence. Mother's name before marriage, and of her parents. Date of marriage. Mention any interesting events in the lives of either parents: If dead, date, place and cause of death...
Pedigree on your father's side as far back as possible, mentioning ancestors in any way distinguished, and giving occupation and residence of as many as possible. Ancestral line of your mother's family in briefer form. What ancestors or relatives have graduated at Harvard, and when...
...volume of bound music in the college library is a song called "Father Abbey's Will," which has a curious history. The words were written in 1730, and represent the various donations of Father Abbey, or, as the college records show, of Father Abdy, the originator of that famous system of "goodies" with which every student has since had experience. On the first page of the song are these words : "Cambridge, Dec., 1730. Some time since died Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age; he had for a great number of years served the college in the quality...
...offered to defray the expenses of Prof. Agassiz and six assistants. The expedition yielded scientific results of great importance, and, although the expenses proved greater than was anticipated, Mr. Thayer did not refuse to defray them. Thayer Hall was erected in 1870 as a memorial gift, commemorative of his father. In 1874 the fire-proof herbarium on the grounds of the Botanic Garden was built at a cost of $15,000 by Mr. Thayer. He received in 1866 the honorary degree of A. M. from the university, and has served on the board of fellows. He was in his seventy...
...correspondent of the Hartford Courant writes, commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...