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...finance committee of the board of trustees; Rev. William H. Ward and Colonel Mason W. Tyler. Charles D. Adams presided. It was proposed to raise $50,000 to endow the professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held by Dr. Edward Hitchcock. President Seelye gave a detailed statement of the financial condition of the college. He approved the plan of a Beecher memorial, and was of the opinion that if this fellowship was endowed, others would be in a short time. Amherst had one great drawback - that among her alumni there were...
Prof. Edward Hitchcock of Amherst has presented to the Conn. Valley Historical Society a piece of the rock from which the soldiers of the rebellion under Daniel Shays, made their flint 100 years ago. - Yale News...
...graduates of the University who registered on Sunday were President Barnard of Columbia, President Bartlett of Dartmouth, President Beach of Wesleyan, President Carter of Williams, Prof. Cooley of Michigan University, Prof. Dana of Yale, Prof. Drisler of Columbia, President Dwight of Yale, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, President Hitchcock of the Union Theological Seminary, President McCosh of Princeton, Hon. W. C. Endicott, Secretary of War, Governor Robinson, James Russell Lowell, Justice Field and Prof. Rodolfo Lanciarri of the University of Rome...
...George F. Fiske, an eminent oculist from Chicago, has been engaged by Dr. Hitchcock, to come to Cornell in order to examine, free of charge, the eyes of all students of the college. The statistics about near-sightedness will be interesting and valuable as an addition to those already collected in other educational institutions abroad and in America...
...Amherst College class of 1836 commemorates this year the fiftieth anniversary of its graduation. Some of the names on its list are noteworthy. Its salutatorian was the late Governor Alexander H. Bullock. The Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, president of the Union Seminary, New York city, Justices Kellogg and Doolittle, respectively of the supreme courts of Vermont and New York, Dr. Nathan Allen of Lowell, and other men who have made their mark, are numbered among "the boys...