Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University cross-country team has presented Mr. Herbert Jaques, father of H. Jaques, Jr., '11, the captain of the team, with a large silver loving cup in recognition of his interest in the team last fall. Mr. Jaques had his stables fitted to serve the runners as dressing quarters and installed showers and other conveniences for their use. The cup is inscribed with the following: "Presented to Mr. Herbert Jaques by the Harvard Cross-Country Team in grateful recognition of his invaluable aid toward a most successful season...
After the audience was seated, the procession including King Edward VI and his court entered, accompanied by the celebrated French architect, Daniele Barbaro and other guests of honor. The masque itself, representing the progress of architecture through the ages then proceeded. Father Time introduced, in order, the spirits of the various styles of architecture. Each spirit was accompanied by different figures including the Romanesque, Gothic, Elizabethan, and Classic orders, each group of figures participating in a dance. This was followed by a representation of modern architecture as prophesied by the students of Cambridge University. The second masque represented the uniting...
...train for South Acton when he was hit by the engine returning from shifting freight. He was taken at once to the Cambridge Hospital where he died at 9.30 o'clock. Death resulted from a fracture of the skull. His brother, M. D. Graves 2L., as well as his father and mother, who were visiting him, were present when he died...
...expeditions. He met the "Challenger" when it reached Halifax in May, 1873; and it was here that the scientists of that expedition prophesied that he would have a brilliant future. In the winter of that same year he passed through a terrible ordeal in the death of both his father and wife. Yet, though a changed man, he clung to his desire for new knowledge and, in accordance with a promise expressed at Halifax, went in 1876 to Scotland, where he assisted in sorting the collections of the "Challenger" expedition, and selecting the Echini, on which he later prepared...
Nathaniel Thayer, a descendant of the family which in 1630 settled at Braintree, was born in Boston, June 13, 1851. After graduating from Harvard in 1871 he travelled abroad for two years, returning in 1874 to associate in business with his father, who five years previously had given Thayer Hall to the College. He was made president of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Company in 1876 and since then has been the guiding power in numerous banks, railroads and business concerns. He was also a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1877 and again...