Word: honored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...International Poe Association will hold a celebration in honor of the one-hundredth anniversary of Poe's birth in the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University, Boylston and Exeter streets, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. W. Kendall Watkins, who has made a careful study of the history of Boston, will speak on "Poe's Birth and his Parentage." "The Untrustworthy Memorialists of Poe" will be the subject of a speech by Mr. W. Lanier Washington, and Mr. William Fearing Gill, author of a Life of Poe, will tell of "Curious Coincidences, and Personal Reminiscences of Near...
...best results. Harvard College can be made to share in the growth of Harvard University. The new President has spoken in the past on the question of the Yard dormitories and on the feasibility of a large Freshman dormitory. The possible reorganization of Memorial Hall provides another opportunity. Undergraduate honor, both in and out of the class room, can be materially strengthened. There are those who believe the morality in the community is better today than ever before. It can be made considerably better...
...Hopkinson Smith delivered a stirring lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "American Mud, and Those it Spatters," in which he maintained that the United States shows a want of civilization which has not its counterpart in any other country of the world. We neither honor the dead nor the living; we "throw...
...east again he took charge of some iron mills in Maryland, where he remained till he enlisted. As captain in the sixth Massachusetts cavalry he was ordered to Virginia, where he was given a place in General McClellan's staff. After the battle of Antietam, Colonel Lowell received the honor of carrying the captured flags to Washington. While fighting with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he was wounded in the chest. Despite this wound he charged a village held by sharp-shooters at the head of his troop, receiving a fatal wound in the neck. General Sheridan said of Colonel...
Major Higginson has devoted his life to the interests of Boston and to Harvard. The first great gift that he gave to the University was a vast tract of land, which he wished to be named Soldiers Field in honor of those who had died for the Union during the Civil War. It was to be a place where all Harvard men could enjoy outdoor sports. In the autumn of 1899 he gave $150,000 to build a clubhouse which should "bear no name forever except that of our University." Plans for the building were drawn up by McKim, Mead...