Word: historian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college. A large audience such as usually attends the class day exercises at Columbia was present and received each speaker warmly. H. D. Young, the president of the class, presided. The speakers were C. H. Young, orator, who delivered the address of welcome; J. J. Mapes, class historian; L. C. Reamer, poet; C. S. Baldwin, class prophet; W. C. Humphreys made the presentation, in which it is customary for the speaker to "spring gags" on his class mates. The exercises closed with the singing of the ode by the class...
...Class Day exercises took place the day before. A large audience filled Huntington Hall and the class occupied the platform and floor of the hall. The Technology Glee Club and Quartette and the Salem Cadet Orchestra furnished music. The class historian was L. A. Ferguson; statistician, S. Warren, and bard, O. B. Roberts. The Class Day officers were as follows: Chief marshal, A. T. Bradlee; marshals, R. Devens, H. F. Bigelow and H. J. Horn, Jr.; Class Day committee, H. D. Bates, H. F. Bigelow, A. T. Bradlee, G. E. Claflin, H. G. Cross, G. U. G. Holman...
...Dorr, is a vivid description of that interesting place. Theodore Child contributes "The Literary Career in France," a paper which is well worth reading. "The Discovery of the Rocky Mountains." by Francis Parkman, is not only instructive but possesses the charm of the other writings of that able historian. Perhaps the most interesting article in this number is that by Ellen Terry Johnson, called "The Queen Behind the Throne." It is a short sketch of a wonderful woman, the Princess des Ursins, the Madame de Maintenon of Spain. The writer enters into details which general histories have not space...
...salutatorian, C. H. Young, were selected by the faculty for superiority in scholarship. The others were elected by the class last Tuesday and are as follows: Latin poet, H. A. Sill; English speakers, G. T. Warren, Jr., and J. R. Fairchild; for class-day : orator, P. T. Hall; historian, J. J. Mapes; poet, L. C. Reamer; presentation orator, W. C. Humphreys; prophet, C. S. Baldwin. The committees are: for commencement, J. J. Mapes, H. S. Harper, G. Livingston, G. M. Tuttle and A. M. Kane; for class-day, C. H. Young, D. Ewell, J. R. Fairchild, W. R. Powell...
...Gibbon," a defence of the historian against the attacks of hostile crities, is not only exhausive but interesting...