Word: hollises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The list of collectors and their territories is as follows: ANDOVER Entire--W. S. Stone 2 PERKINS 1-22--M. L. Wood 8 23-44--C. E. Hart 41 45-66--Shepherd Geoffrey 57 67-88--A. B. Robinson 83 CONANT 3-20--J. R. Strayer 10 21-32--J...
Hollis--"The Wisdom Tooth"--8.15 o'clock. Once upon a time Mr. Connelly read Barrie.
The College had existed for 85 years before an endowed professorship was established. In 1721, Thomas Hollis gave the foundation fund for the professorship of divinity which still bears his name. He endowed Harvard outright with a sum of money, the interest of which 40 pounds per year, was to...
Hollis also established in 1727 a professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy. He had long meditated the subject, and wrote concerning it to his friend, Benjamin Colman, as follows: "Though jeered and sneered at by many I leave the issue to the Lord, for whose sake Isperform these offices and...
From this time onward the endowment of professorships at Harvard rapidly increased. Nicholas Boylston of Boston, when he died in 1771, bequeathed to the College 1,500 pounds for the foundation of a "Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors...