Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strenuous outbreak occurred. It had been the custom for students to offer excuse for absence from chapel. The tutors decided no longer to admit such excuses. This caused great indignation among the students, who met in a body and declared the rule "unconstitutional." Several windows were broken and several suspected students expelled. At this the three lower classes went to the President declaring that they would leave College. The Seniors applied for recommendation to another college. The Overseers of the College, however, held a meeting, and by confirming the action of the President and tutors and announcing their resolution...
Major Higginson briefly outlined his early life to the outbreak of the Civil War. He was born in New York City in 1834, moved to Boston when he was four years of age, and attended school there until 1851, when he came to college. Among his intimate friends at college were the late Horace Furness '54, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the late Charles Lowell...
...been Directory of the Government Biological Laboratory at Manila, Where, in 1907, he was made Professor of Tropical Medicine in the College of Medicine and Surgery. In 1911 Dr. Strong went to China with Dr. Oscar Teague as delegate to the International Plague Conference called to investigate a serious outbreak of the pneumonic plague in Manchuria. In spite of overwhelming difficulties due to wretched hospitals, equipment, and the uniform fatality of the disease, Dr. Strong and his college were entirely successful in making some very valuable discoveries in regard to the plague and the way in which it is spread...
...Beale went to Pei Yang University, at Tien Tsin, China, as professor of English and History. Here he took charge of athletics and organized the first successful intercollegiate track meet ever held in China. At the outbreak of the revolution, the University closed and Mr. Beale devoted himself to an investigation of the turbulent scenes...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...