Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After his graduation at Harvard he went abroad and studied law and languages at Gottingen. He returned after a year's absence and continued the study of law in an office and in the Law School. In 1862 he was commissioned first lieutenant and later captain of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. From 1863 to 1866 he was United States consul at Batavia, Java. Since then he has been interested in manufacturing and railroading...
...annual meeting of the I. C. A. A. A. A. was held in New York at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Saturday afternoon and passed off very smoothly...
...will, unless the circumstances of the choice are appreciated, probably cause much dissatisfaction. At the conference held last Saturday in New York to decide on the dates for the intercollegiate races, the Harvard-Yale-Cornell race was set for not earlier than June 23 nor later than the twenty-fifth because the Cornell-U. of P. Columbia race could not take place later than July 2 and it was thought that the Cornell crew would need at least a week between races. The final choice of date was left to Harvard. The twenty-fifth is satisfactory to Cornell...
...regular annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will be held on Saturday evening, Feb. 27, at the Fifth Auenue Hotel, New York, to arrange the details of the next Mott Haven games. Captain W. H. Vincent '97, F. H. Bigelow '98, H. W. Howe '97, and N. W. Bingham, Jr., graduate manager, will represent Harvard. They will also attend the executive committee meeting of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on Friday night to make arrangements for the bicycle meet connected with the Mott Haven Games...
...Five schemes were proposed, the first of which was adopted. Two of the others were those already suggested by the committee; to use four trees back of University, or to have a shower of flowers. The fourth scheme was to choose a new tree back of Matthews, and the fifth was to have the class officers distribute the flowers. Various modifications of all the plans were suggested, but after a long discussion the vote was in favor of the old Tree...