Word: gen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some officer of the University will probably preside. Two of the three judges have already been selected. They are Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mr. Carl Schurz of New York. The third judge will be announced later...
...Gen. Armstrong had colored troops during the war and there received the inspiration which resulted in this mighty work to which he consecrated his life...
Last evening in Sanders Theatre the Rev. A. P. Turner, chaplain of Hampton Institute, spoke on the work and objects of this school for Indian and colored youth. He was introduced by Dr. McKenzie, who gave a brief outline of the Institute as it was first started by Gen. Armstrong and of its later development...
...Gen. Samuel James Bridge, who presented to Cambridge the statue of John Bridge, which stands in the common, and to the University the statue of John Harvard, died Monday evening after a brief illness, at the Norfolk House, Roxbury, in his 85th year. Gen. Bridge was a direct descendant of John Bridge, the supervisor of the first public school in the colony which was afterward called Cambridge, and the leading spirit in the establishment of Harvard University in pursuance of the requests and bequests of John Harvard...
...Gen. Bridge fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, but lack of funds prevented him from entering. He established himself as a commission merchant in Boston, and in 1841 was appointed Principal Appraiser of the port of Boston. This position he hied until 1853, when he was appointed Appraiser General at San Francisco, where he was head of the whole Pacific coast department. In 1871 he retired from public life. He was all his life a generous and active philanthrophist. To his native town of Dresden, Me., he gave over $12,000 for the promotion of its religious, educational...