Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amherst College class of 1836 commemorates this year the fiftieth anniversary of its graduation. Some of the names on its list are noteworthy. Its salutatorian was the late Governor Alexander H. Bullock. The Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, president of the Union Seminary, New York city, Justices Kellogg and Doolittle, respectively of the supreme courts of Vermont and New York, Dr. Nathan Allen of Lowell, and other men who have made their mark, are numbered among "the boys...
...significant book has just been issued. This is the publication of an oration by Dr. Phillips Brooks at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Latin School. Dr. Brooks traces with great care the close relations which have always existed between the Latin School and its younger sister, Harvard University. No school, perhaps, has been so closely connected with Harvard as the Latin School. Its masters have been almost an unbroken series of Harvard graduates, and in return the school has continued, we might almost say for centuries, to supply the university with an annual...
Next year Harvard College will celebrate its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The authorities have been much perplexed as to the most fitting way in which this should be done; some have thought that a Greek play should be presented; others, principally the leaders in the present progressive educational movement, think that one of Shakspere's plays "set with ancient simplicity." would better conform to the spirit of the time. While this perplexity exists here at home, there is going on in a quiet, unassuming way, something which will do more to commemorate fittingly this great event than...
BOSTON MUSEUM.- Benefit of Mrs. J. R. Vincent and Fiftieth Anniversary of her adoption of the stage. Matince. "She Stoops to Conquer." Eve. "The Rivals." Performance...
...entreated to become schole-master for the teaching and nourtering of children with us." Last Thursday evening the alumni of the school thus founded and to-day known as the Boston Latin School, assembled in the drill hall of the school building to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the oldest school on the continent. The Latin School is one year older than Harvard, and is the staunchest adherent to it among the preparatory schools. The performance of the evening was:- Prayer, Rev. J. F. Clarke, D. D.; Music; Presentation of Portrait of Mr. Epes...