Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dean Briggs, and then the prizes were distributed. He next considered the Bowdoin prizes and in his remarks made this interesting statement: Prizes for English were given to the following men while they were in College: Edward Everett '11, Jared Sparks '15, George Bancroft '17, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Josiah Quincy '21, Benjamin Robbins Curtis '29, James Freeman Clarke '29, Charles Sumner '30, Francis Bowen '33, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar '35, Henry Whitney Bellows '32, Jones Very '36, Richard Henry Dana '37, Edward Everett Hale '39, Thomas Hill '43, Francis James Child '46, James Coolidge Carter '50, James Mills Peirce...
Among the speeches to be given on the morning of the first day at the South Congregational Church, Boston, are two by Harvard men: An address of welcome by Josiah Quincy '80, and a paper on "The Selection and Training of Colonial officials in England, Holland and France," by Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell '77. In the evening, Roger Wolcott '70, will give a second address of welcome...
...Mayor Josiah Quincy spoke last night in the Fogg Museum on "Boston Municipal Improvements." He said in part: $2,500,000 is appropriated annually for the education of children in Boston, and only $77,000 for their physical development. It is an open question whether the fund for education should not be lowered and the recreation fund increased. As a paying investment, it is advisable to consider whether a greater amount expended on public baths and recreation grounds will not result in a more than compensating decrease in the size of the appropriation necessary for hospitals and prisons. Thirteen permanent...
...Student Volunteer Committee. Stereopticon Lecture: Public Baths and Gymnasia. Hon. Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston. Address by Mr. Robert A. Woods, of the South End House. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man will be delivered this evening by Professor Josiah Royce, who will take for his subject "The Conception of Immortality." The lecture, which is a repetition by request of that delivered on November 10, will be given in the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock...