Word: laconia
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...Cunard liner, Laconia, which docked at the East Boston docks late Tuesday evening, brought a number of Harvard professors back from the scene of the war. Professor Frederic J. Stimson, Professor of Comparative Legislation, who has just been appointed ambassador to Argentina, was detained in Germany 15 days by the authorities. Professor Charles Peabody, of the Peabody Museum, was obliged to cut short researches in Syria owing to unsettled conditions, but expects to return in November...
Archdeacon Cunningham, who will deliver a course of lectures here, and E. W. Forbes, Director of the Fogg Museum, arrived from England on the Laconia...
Beginning with the admirably illustrated anecdote about "the young man of Laconia," the reader finds something cheerful on nearly every page of this week's Lampoon. The drawing really deserve praise, for instead of attempting the conventional girl engaged in repartee with the usual dress coated man, they are refreshingly funny, and numerous...
...Tucker was born in Bristol, Conn. in 1831 and graduated from Dartmouth in 1861. During the two following years be taught school at Laconia, N. H. and at Columbus, O., after which he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1866. In 1875 Dr. Tucker was called to the pastorate of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York City, but left that pulpit five years later to accept the professorship of homiletics in the Andover Seminary. He has twice refused the presidency of Dartmouth, but has changed somewhat during the last year and realizing the present situation, accepted...