Word: mason
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BRIEF FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE.Principal disputants : E. C. Mason, B. W. Palmer...
...Shippen, '87, presided at the Glee Club dinner Wednesday evening at the Parker House, L. Honore, '88, acted as orator, and W. W. Winslow, '85, as poet. S. A. Elliot, '84, and A. G. Mason, '86, former presidents of the club were present as guests. After the dinner and the customary speeches, songs, etc., several young ladies on Commonwealth avenue and Newbury street were serenaded by the club...
...from '88: Abbott, Anderson, Austin, Baldwin, Bancroft, Barnes, Bradlee, C. Browne, Brush, Cabot, B. Carpenter, G. A. Carpenter, Chase, Cheever, Choate, Churchill, Clarke, Clement, Codman, Fuller, H. H. Furness, W. H. Furness, Garrison, Gilbert, Goodwin, Grover, Hale, Hallowell, Hay, Holden, Keasby, Leighton, Lent, Le Roy, Loeb, Lund, H. L. Mason, R. Norton, Paine, Palmer, Pease, H. M. Plummer, Rantoul, Reynolds, Sanford, Swarts, Schermerhorn, Shepard...
...occupied by the Harvard Annex. The author, Samuel Gilman, belonged to the class of 1811, and while in Cambridge at his class reunion in 1836 he wrote "Fair Harvard." He was then the guest of Miss Fay - a niece by marriage - who owned the building on the corner of Mason and Garden streets. While her guest, Mr. Gilman, occupied the room over the parlor on the right looking out upon Shepherd Memorial Church, and it was here that he composed his famous verses. Since the Fay house has become the property of the Annex, Mrs. Caroline Howard Gilman, the widow...
...endowing a professorship at Amherst College in memory of the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Among those present were Rev. Dr. J. H. Seelye, president of Amherst College; Henry D. Hyde of Boston, chairman of the finance committee of the board of trustees; Rev. William H. Ward and Colonel Mason W. Tyler. Charles D. Adams presided. It was proposed to raise $50,000 to endow the professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held by Dr. Edward Hitchcock. President Seelye gave a detailed statement of the financial condition of the college...