Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Thirty-five years ago you were called to be President of Harvard College. At the age thirty-five you became the head of an institution whose history was long, whose traditions were firm, and whose loading counsellors were of twice your age. With prophetic insight you anticipated the movements of thought and life: your face was toward the coming day. In your imagination the College was already the University...
...Adams '98, died of consumption last Saturday, after a long illness, at Staatsburg-on-Hudson. New York. He was twenty-eight years of age. After leaving College he first entered the employ of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and until recently was clerk in a Boston brokerage firm. Mr. Adams was a member of Light Battery A., M. V. M., and of the Boston Athletic Association. The funeral will take place at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon in Trinity Church, Boston...
...Rice served in the Fifth Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War, and since 1866 has been engaged in shoe manufacturing. He is the senior member of the firm of Rice and Hutchins...
...Bangs Warner '69, will deliver an address before the Practice Association of the Law School on Friday, March 11, upon the following subject: "Ethics and the Practice of the Law." Mr. Warner graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1873, and is now a member of the Boston law firm of Warner, Warner and Stackpole...
...School in the class of '74. He served as Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1875 to 1878, and as general counsel to the New York and New England Railroad from 1882 to 1886. For several years he was a partner of Professor J. C. Gray '59 in the firm of Ropes, Gray and Loring. He was appointed Associate Justice...