Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Annex Glee and Banjo Clubs will give their annual concert followed by a reception at the Fay House on Monday evening, April 3rd. The patronesses are Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Martin Brimmer, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. F. Gordon Dexter, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. Nathaniel S. Shaler, Mrs. Henry Whitman, and Mrs. Quincy Shaw...
...Tuesday afternoon. The building has been named Boardman Hall and is a memorial of Douglass Boardman, the first Dean of the Law Department of the University. The occasion was made doubly interesting by the presentation to the Law School of 12,000 volumes, the library of the late Nathaniel C. Moak. The library will be known as the Moak Library and is the gift of Mrs. A. M. Boardman and Mrs. Ellen D. Williams, the widow and daughter of Judge Boardman. This addition to the library doubles the number of volumes in it and makes it one of the most...
...Nathaniel Ropes, '55 who was in the same class with Phillips Brooks, died Monday in Salem...
...attention has been called to a notice in your issue of yesterday of Cornell's acquisition of the "law library of the late Nathaniel Moak." With reference to this notice one or two corrections should be made. The statement that both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it as it is, is inaccurate. Harvard University has made no attempt to buy the collection, as is stated, although there has been some correspondence concerning certain American reports that might perhaps have been bought as duplicates. There was no occasion to buy English, Irish, Scotch, or colonial reports, with...
...George R. Williams recently purchased the private law library of the late Nathaniel Moak and presented it to Cornell University as a memorial to Judge Boardman. This library, containing many rare and costly documents, cost over $100,000, and with the library Cornell already has, makes the finest law library in the country. Cornell was fortunate in securing it, as both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it. The Moak collection contains about 13,000 volumes and its original cost was something over $100,000. Mr. Moak spent thirty years in gathering it and took great pains...