Word: generals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...General Stewart L. Woodford, LL.D., D.C.L., ex-minister to Spain and President of the National Federation of Hughes Clubs, will address the Harvard Hughes Club at 8 o'clock this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union on "Governor Hughes and the Political Situation...
...many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member...
...swimming team which must practice out in Brookline at uncertain hours, or rely upon the caprice of certain owners for the use of dormitory tanks, and must meet teams accustomed to regular practice in well-appointed tanks, obviously at a great disadvantage. The apparatus of the Gymnasium is in general good, but in many cases antiquated, such as the rowing machines. The sanitation of the building is imperfect, danger of disease being increased by the impossibility of sufficient ventilation and the present uncleanliness of lockers and corridors...
...publication of The American Nation, -- a monumental work in twenty seven stout octavo volumes, --under the general editorship of Professor Hart, marks the first very serious attempt to apply the principle of the division of labor to a narrative of the annals of the American people. Despite the elaborate scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers...
...Three committees, of three men each, shall be appointed by the captain. The Graduate Rowing Committee will represent the interests of the graduate schools. The Eights and Fours Committee will have general care of boats and oars. It will be its duty to see that all boats are kept in condition. The Sculling Committee will look after its branch of rowing...