Word: foster
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...line-ups: HARVARD. B. A. A. Palmer, Baldwin, Hanson, l.e. r.e., J. W. Foster Duncan, Morgan, l.c. r.c., Hicks Huntington, Adams, r.c. l.c., Osgood Pierce, Reeves, r.e. l.e., Leslie Blackall, Wingate, c.p. c.p., Heron Willetts, Houston, p. p., N. H. Foster, H. Foster, Jr. H. B. Gardner, Smart, g. g., Canterbury
...line-ups were as follows: HARVARD. B. A. A. Baldwin, l.e. r.e., J. W. Foster Duncan, l.c. r.c., Hicks Palmer, r.c. l.c., Osgood Pierce, r.e., l.e., Leslie, G. P. Gardner, Jr. Blackall, c.p. c.p., Heron Willetts, p. p., N. H. Foster, H. Foster, Jr. H. B. Gardner, g. g., Canterbury
...called at short notice to attend "a mass meeting for the election of officers." Hurried visits to all members possessing the franchise with strict injunction to attend the meeting and vote for the "right candidate," resulted more often than not in an election well calculated, sooner or later, to foster the elements of discord. To operate successfully a regular "railroading" scheme under the old system required only three or four intelligent "spell-binders," backed by as few as 50 voters well trained in concerted cheering. Time and again the many, who could know very little of the respective candidates' merits...
...festivities of Easter week have passed, while Harvard with supreme indifference kept them at work. Then when all the real opportunities for a thoroughly enjoyable vacation are past Harvard sends them home to spend a week in solitary grandeur. Yet Harvard, we are told, is doing its best to foster interest among students in all parts of the country, particularly in the South and West...
After graduation from College, Professor Gray entered the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1861. He was in the Civil War serving in many capacities, eventually as major and judge advocate of United States Volunteers on the staff of Generals Foster and Gillmore. In 1869, he became a lecturer in the Harvard Law School where he was made Storey Professor, of Law in 1875. In 1883 he was promoted to the Royal Professorship which has been associated with his name for nearly thirty years...