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...clerk in some iron works and was later educated as a mechanical engineer. He constructed the government sea-wall around Governor's Island and another at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. He also laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Mr. Smith is also well known as an artist and as an author. He has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmauyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded a bronze medal...
...Smith was educated as a mechanical engineer. He built the Race Rock lighthouse off New London and laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He is also well known as an artist and an author. His landscape work in water-colors and charcoal have been awarded medals at several expositions and by many art societies. Mr. Smith has written some delightful short stories, the best known of which are "The Under Dog," "The Wood Fire in No. 3" and "Colonel Carter of Cartersville...
...President and Fellows of Harvard College, commonly known as the Corporation, consist of Charles William Eliot '53, president; Henry Pickering Walcott '58, Henry Lee Higginson '55, Francis Cabot Lowell '76, Arthur Tracy Cabot '72, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, fellows; and Charles Francis Adams, 2nd., '88, treasurer. The Board of Overseers consists of the President and Treasurer of the University, ex officiis, and the following persons by election: Francis Lee Higginson '63, James Jackson Storrow '85, George Angier Gordon '81, Francis Randall Appleton '75, William Watson Goodwin '51, Moorfield Storey '66, Henry Shippen Huidekoper '62, John Noble '50, Winslow Warren...
...Edgar Huidekoper Wells '97 is now widely known especially among Harvard graduates through his position as secretary of the Alumni Asociation. Since the spring of 1907 Mr. Wells has been engaged in collecting statistics of alumni and in promoting the organization of Harvard clubs throughout the country. He is also one of the editors of the Harvard Bulletin and Secretary of Appointments, an office organized for the purpose of procuring business and teaching positions for Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Before taking up this work, Mr. Wells had two years' experience as Assistant Dean of the College. He held this office...
...late Professor Charles Eliot Norton. The inscription on its back states that this picture was presented to Benjamin Dyke in 1803, at which time it had been preserved in the family of its donor, Miss Frances Lambert, for more than three centuries. In recent years, it has been known as the Seddon portrait. It was bought, after Mr. Seddon's death, by Mr. Fairfax Murray, who later sold it to Mr. James Loeb. Mr. Loeb presented it to Professor Norton. Professor Norton bequeathed it to the Library, with the request that it be inscribed as a memorial of two lovers...