Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harriet L. Hemenway, wife of Augustus Hemenway, who gave the Harvard Gymnasium, is the donor of the $50,000 for the Radcliffe Gymnasium which is now being built on Mason street. Miss Marian Hovey has also given more than the needed money for apparatus, and has allotted several thousand dollars of the money left at her disposal by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, mother of Augustus Hemenway, for the swimming tank in the gymnasium. The surplus will be held as a fund for obtaining other apparatus in the future...
...scholarships for upperclassmen were awarded in the fall and have already been published, with the exception of the Lewis and Harriet Hayden Scholarship with an income of $200, which has been assigned to Edward Jackson Davis, A. B., Fisk University '95, of Sumter, S. C., a member of the third class. This scholarship was founded in 1894 from a bequest by Mrs. Harriet Hayden, to be devoted to the education of colored students...
Mention is also made of a gift of $1000 for the purchase of books by Mrs. Harriet Jackson Morse of Boston in memory of Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley. A new scholarship, just founded, bears the name of the president, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. The Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames also offers for the first time a prize of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred, dollars for the best essay of sufficient merit on some subject connected with the Colonial History of New England...
...student who was fortunate enough to enter Harvard College in the sixties entered at a time of great intellectual and moral growth. During these years Emerson had kept writing about an ideal life free from the turmoils of mankind. Lowell, Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe were stirring the consciences of mankind against slavery. The words of William Lloyd Garrison were engraved upon the memories of Harvard men. The news of John Brown's raid had startled the land, and now the echo of the guns fired at Fort Sumter was heard. On Bloody Monday, 1862, the campaign was begun, which...
...Tourney" (poem), Harriet Prescott Spofford...