Word: nason
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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OFFICERS OF THE C. T. Co. - President, C. P. E. Burgwyn, A. B.; Vice-President, R. W. Sawyer, '74; Secretary, F. E. Randall, '74; Treasurer, G. W. White, '74; Directors, J. F. Simmons, A. B.; R. W. Nason, A. B.; C. J. Bell...
...November, 1872, a telegraph wire was laid by Messrs. Nason, Bell, and Willson, of '73, and Sawyer, of '74, between Thayer and Weld Halls. Before the day had closed, the telegraphers had an opportunity of proving their success by sending the news of the "Great Fire" in Boston across the line. Thus the birthday of the Telegraph at Harvard was celebrated by an event that will long remain a part of the history of Boston. May we not suppose that, as the burning of the "Temple of Diana," at Ephesus, celebrated the birthday of so invincible a conqueror as Alexander...
Pres., R. W. Nason, '73; Vice-Pres. and Inspector, W. A. Bell, '73; Sec., C. P. E. Burgwyn, '73; Treas., F. E. Randall...
...equal in size. But the one on the western bank quite surpassed its rival in having a band and in being the terminal station of the Harvard Telegraph Co. Here, on a rude platform, built in the crotch of a tree at least thirty feet from the ground, sat Nason, '73, ready for the faintest signal of the start. But the start was not yet. The wiser ones, who had waited for boats to start before, took no part in the general rush to the bank at each false alarm, but quietly got through the tedious hour and a half...
RUFUS WILLIAM NASON...