Word: founder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that short period, the fruits of a wide experience and rare knowledge which had combined to win for him an international reputation. By his association with Harvard, the unusual honors conferred by the French and German governments reflected the highest credit on the University which he served. As the founder and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, he added enormously to a formerly meagre knowledge concerning meteorology and climatology. And it is chiefly to him that we owe what advancement has lately been made in the study of the air in relation to aerial navigation. Professor Rotch will long...
Professor Gray is the thirty-fifth president of the Alumni Association. He directly succeeds Major Henry L. Higginson '55, the founder of the Harvard Union and the donor of Soldiers Field...
...304th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard was celebrated last Monday, November 27, by a short address in Appleton Chapel at the time of morning prayers. As the Founder's birthday was celebrated last year on November 29 it seems best to clear up the question of the date for future celebrations...
...Editor's answer to the question, "Was John Harvard the Founder?" effectually lays the ghosts of certain historical anonymities who should rest with the anteColumban discoverers of America and the preAdamite men. It would be an ironical welcome indeed if the young Freshman scion of the Founder's family should learn from our lips that he is historically only a step...
...letter President Everett asked Mr. Bancroft to deliver some books--including a set of Quincy's "History of Harvard"--to Rev. John Harvard of Plymouth, England, whom President Everett spoke of as "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor at the beginning of the seventeenth century was a brother of our founder." It may be remarked in passing that the commission was faithfully executed, and the books are still in the possession of the family of which Lionel Harvard is a member...