Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...want to tell of a kind act I saw done by someone of the Harvard paraders in a recent torchlight parade. I was coming home and as the parade disbanded some of them gave their torches to delighted kids. One little fellow seemed to be too small to be seen, but one student saw him and gave him his torch. Perhaps he would like it for a souvenir himself. The youngster was so pleased that he wanted to know if he could light it on Hallowe...
...resident students, and a surprisingly varied body of people have responded to this plan. Among those listed is a locomotive engineer, who, having finished beginner's Latin, is going on with advanced work for pleasure. Railway clerks, men in mining camps, lawyers and doctors, ministers and court reporters are fellow students. A girl who gives her occupation as tub mending is deep in the translation of Virgil. Instructors of science and mathematics feeling that their training has been too specialized are studying Latin, and Catholic sisters are taking courses to improve their teaching. Evidently under such a system many people...
...meeting of the President and Fellows last Monday the resignations of James Howard means '07 as Henry Wolcott Fellow in Medicine was accepted, and several appointments were made. Alexander Hamilton Rice '01 was appointed Agent for collecting specimens for the Peabody Museum; aniel Crosby, as consulting Laryngologist to Huntington Hospital; Channing Chamborlain, Simmons 1899, as assistant surgeon to Huntington Hospital; Garland Manong Missirian '14, as assistant in the Assyri an Language. Leave of absence for the second half-year was granted to Professor Wallace Clement Sabine '88 and the Virginia Barrett Gibbs Scholarship for 1916-1917 was awarded to Hovey...
Only a few weeks later this "Roi de l'Air," as he was known to the army, who had walked so often through our own College Yard, was dead on the field; shot down in an heroic effort to help his fellow-aviators-"a glorious death, face a Pennemi, for a great cause and to save a friend...
...sooner has the Right Reverend Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester, England, and Senior Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, left than the announcement comes that another English scholar is to honor an American university with his presence. This time it is Dr. Stephen Langdon, of Oxford University, the noted Sumerian scholar, who has been appointed curator of the Babylonian section of the University of Pennsylvania museum. Dr. Langdon, whose appointment is for one year, expects to spend much of his time in translating and cataloging the many thousand Sumerian and Babylonian tablets in the museum...