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...group paintings we have, has been leaned by the Law School especially for this occasion. Another portrait, that of the Marquis de la Fayette, is the work of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. There is also a portrait by John S. Copley of Mrs. Robert Hooper, the wife of the merchant, who when Newcastle was without fuel, made his fortune by "carrying coals to Newcastle...
...football lines, has given up hammer throwing this year and is concentrating entirely on the shot put. In his preliminary discussions of the meet, Hellman has looked forward to 16 points in the high jump and broad jump, and now he sees a chance with Hoffman, Durgin, Hagerman, and Hooper to send into the event two men who can shut the Harvard and Cornell weight men out of the main scoring places...
...learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator Edward Everett...
Among the important addresses that will be given at the time of the convention is the greeting by President Lowell, which is scheduled for Wednesday, December 28. The retiring president of the Society, R. A. Daly, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, will deliver the presidential address on "The Depths of the Earth." "Development of the Invertebrate Paleontology in America" is the subject to be discussed by R. S. Bassler, retiring president of the Paleontological Society. A. N. Winchell of the Mineralogical Society of America will speak on "The New Mineralogy...
...scientific sessions of the group will be held in the Union, as well as the annual banquet. A feature of the convention will be the address of the retiring president of the Society, R. A. Daly, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, on the first day of the conference. Daly will speak on "The Depths of the Earth." Following his address a smoker will be held for all delegates at M.I.T. All other functions will take place in the Union...