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...other temporary officers are: R.L. Ruggles '31, Secretary-General; Marion Hunter, or wellesley, Assistant Secretary-General; Nathaniel Samuels '31, Chairman of Agenda Committee; and H.M. Biller, of Tufts, Chairman of Credentials Committee...
Legless women excited Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (1805-61) to pity. In 1860 he gave $5,000 to the Massachusetts General Hospital for the purchase of wooden legs. Meticulous, he specified: "I should desire that female patients should be preferred to males." For 69 years the hospital has been obeying his instructions, but the need has been dwindling. Rare is it now that amputations must be made. Hence the hospital recently asked a Massachusetts probate court, and last week was granted, permission to merge the Bowditch leg fund with its general fund...
...Rich was Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, eldest of the great Nathaniel Bowditch's (1773-1838) eight children. The Bowditches are among the oldest of U. S. families, descended as they are from one William Bowditch who lived at Salem, Mass., from...
...Nathaniel Bowditch made his fortune as actuary of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co.; his fame, as translator-commentator of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch increased his patrimony by practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition...
...both the drop kicking and kicking off contests yesterday, beating C. O. Newhardt '31 and J. W. Potter '30 in each of these respectively. In the forward pass receiving competition R. S. Ogden '31 proved to be the most adept at snaring the forwards that Coach Casey threw. Nathaniel Warner '30 captain-elect of the University wrestling team, won the center passing contest for accuracy. Newhardt captured honors for linemen by winning the coming out of the line competition...