Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...History of Middlesex County." As one looks over such an account of the corporate, material and intellectual growth of Harvard as well as of its legends and traditions, one is justified in feeling pride in the age of our University and in its progress since the days when Mr. Nathaniel Eaton and his usher Nathaniel Briscoe comprised the faculty. Such a review shows how indissolubly the college is linked with the names of those who are best known in the history of the Common wealth...
...most interesting part of the sketch is, however, less the necessarily dry record of elections and bequests than the account of student life, etc. Grumblers at Memorial fare will do well to remember that in 1637-39 Mrs. Nathaniel Eaton "provided very scantily for the students." She gave them bad fish, bread made of heated sour meal and denied them cheese "when they sent for it and although she had it in the house." Anextra order list was in vogue, one finds, as early as 1734. "The buttery came to be a recognized department of the college, where students could...
...Potter, Nathaniel Bowditch...
Sargent, Ara Nathaniel, 24 Hollis...
...current Advocate might well be called a "special number." Every contribution it contains is by a special student. Nathaniel Stephenson signs two bits of verse: "Poetry a la Mode" and "At the River," one a clever little skit, the other picturesquely attractive and both daintily finished...