Word: founder
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...interesting account by Mr. Henry F. Waters '55, the eminent genealogist and antiquarian, of his invaluable discovery of the facts concerning John Harvard's birth and antecedents. The fidelity and minuteness of Mr. Waters's researches make it doubtful whether existing records will yield any further information about the Founder. Should others, however, be emboldened to pursue the subject, they will be able to start with certain lines of inquiry that Mr. Waters's researches have opened. The identity of Harvard's father, Robert Harvard, and of his mother, Katherine Rogers, has been established, and his mother has been traced...
...Maud Ballingon Booth, of New York, founder and head of the Prison League, and general-in-chief of the Volunteers of America, will speak, under the auspices of the Ethical Society, in Emerson Hall on Tuesday, April 30, at 8 o'clock on "The Problems of Prison Life." Mrs. Booth has written some important books, including: "Branded," "Sleepy Time Stories," "Lights of Childland...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, the founder and president of the Union, will speak before the members of the Union, in the Living Room, on the evening of April...
...marble pedestal has been placed under the statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 in Emerson Hall. The pedestal, which replaces the temporary wooden pedestal, is a handsome block of brown marble, provided from the legacy of Francis Boott '31, the founder of the Francis Boott prizes in music. It bears on its face the inscription "Emerson," and on one side the words "From the class of 1831 through Francis Boott...
...agreement between Mrs. William Belden Noble, the founder of the lectures, and the Corporation, the terms governing the Foundation have been revised. The principal change is that by which the appointment of the lecturers is committed to the Corporation, instead of being made by the so-called trustees. The body which formerly appointed the lecturers, has consequently been dissolved. It was made up of the following: President C. W. Eliot, Professor F. G. Peabody, Rev. George Hodges D.D., Professor A. V. G. Allen, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Rt. Rev. William Lawrence D.D., and the Rev. G. A. Gordon...