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...Cambridge, he returned to enlist as a buck private in the U. S. Army. They liked him even more when he returned from France a cavalry captain and, despite unlimited capital and numerous business opportunities, went to work as a bond salesman and bookkeeper's apprentice at Lee, Higginson & Co. Later Salesman Field opened an investment business of his own and still later joined forces with two young investment bankers named Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward. By 1926 the firm of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co. had become Field, Glore & Co. and Marshall Field had deserted Chicago...
When the field was first given in 1890 by Henry Lee Higginson '55 it was only 20 acres in size, but Enright soon arranged to take over 20 additional acres of marsh land which were reclaimed and are now part of the field...
...vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk in 1864, and the rich lode spread and deepened with every foot it slanted into the earth. Hecla Mining Co. paid its first dividend...
...Philosophy, Logic, and Ethics,--Clarence I. Lewis '06, Professor of Philosophy; Physiology,--William J. Crozier, Ph.D. '15, Professor of General Physiology, and Director of the Laboratory of General Physiology, and Edward S. Castle '25, Assistant Professor of General Physiology; Synonyms,--John Livingston Lowes, Ph.D. '05, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, with the advice and assistance of George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature; Pronunciation,--Leo Wiener, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus; Birds and Mammals,--Glover M. Allen '01, Associate Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Insects,--Charles...
Channing Frothingham '02, Director of the Alumni Association; Robert H. Gardiner '04, Class Treasurer; Herbert E. Winlock '06, Director of the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York; George W. Martin '10; Leverett Saltonstall '14, former Overseer, Speaker of the House; Roland L. Redmond '15; F. Higginson Cabot, Jr. '17, former Director of the Alumni Association; Henry S. Morgan '23, Overseer...