Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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April 16, Harvards at Hartford...
...taken the pains to remind the public that four years ago he was pursuing his studies at Harvard-Assemblyman Roosevelt is in imminent danger, if he goes on as he has begun, of waking up some morning to find himself mayor-elect of New York. [Hartford Post...
...whole history of the institution," says the Hartford Times, the affairs of Trinity College were never in better condition than now. There is an increased number of students, the corps of instructors has been considerably enlarged, and the new president, Dr. George Williamson Smith, has proved himself to be a man of affairs, a thoroughly efficient executive officer, in every way acceptable to the trustees and the best friends of the college, unboundedly popular with the students and influential with prominent people in New York, Philadelphia and other cities, who can and will favor and help the institution. This favorable...
...late Dr. John R. Lee, of Hartford, Conn., made a number of bequests to Oberlin and some of the minor. Western colleges. The amounts given were small, varying from...
...late Professor Sophocles was first "brought out," it is said, in 1836 by two Yale tutors, Messrs. N. P. Seymour and S. C. Brace, who had known him at Hartford, where he was living in obscurity with the manuscript of his Greek grammar packed away at the bottom of his trunk. They invited him to come to New Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room...