Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...father and two step-fathers of John Harvard, who left their little fortunes to his mother, whence the property passed to him to endow finally the infant college. The group was labelled "Johnnie Harvard's Pas." The Seniors carried also a transparency worded as follows: "We are the oldest living graduates...
...arguing points of law as they will some day have to argue them in actual courts of law. There are now about a dozen of these clubs which meet every week and by this means about a hundred members of each class get actual practice in legal arguing. The oldest club is the Pow Wow, which was founded in 1870 by eight first year students, among whom are Professor J. B. Ames of the Law School, Austen G. Fox of New York, Russell Gray and Brooks Adams of Boston...
Shortly after the foundation of the Pow Wow a number of other clubs were instituted, and the honor of being elected to one of the three or four oldest clubs is greatly esteemed by all students. The leading clubs are the Pow Wow and the Ames-Gray. Election to either of these paves the way to election to the Law Review, which is a greater honor. Other clubs are the Thayer, Austin, Williston, Story, Langdell, Marshall, Kent, Witenagemot, Washburn and Cooley...
Harvard college is the largest and oldest institution in Cambridge. Around the University the city has grown up. It is consequently necessary that in any parade which shall be representative of the various interests of Cambridge the University should take an important part. It would show a poor spirit indeed if the undergraduates refused to help in making the celebration, which means so much to the citizens of Cambridge, a success. It is little thing that the city has asked of Harvard students, and even if the men feel no personal interest in the occasion, they should be willing...
...John H. Morison, D.D., of the class of 1831, died last Sunday morning at his residence, 26 Marlboro street, Boston. He was one of Harvard's oldest graduates and one of the oldest ministers of the Unitarian denomination in the country...