Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pierian contemplate giving a concert in Bangor, Me., within a short time, and also one at Portland...
...Portland paper contains the following anecdote concerning a Harvard professor: "John Quincy Adams was an advocate of early rising. Professor Greenleaf, of the Harvard Law School, was not. One day the ex-president attended lecture, and fell asleep. The professor pointed to him and addressed the class, 'Young gentlemen, behold the effect of early rising.' It is a reminiscence of one of the students...
...stationed at Fort Popham, Maine, has been removed from his position by the Secretary of War. Sergeant Kelley, it will be remembered, is the man who so cruelly shot down Frank A. Smith, '85, last summer while the latter was looking over the fort. Kelley has been taken to Portland to await trial on the charge of murder...
...Colby University took place at the Baptist Church in Waterville last evening. Eight members of the class gave original pieces, in which much study and research were displayed. The junior parts assigned for scholarship were rendered with credit as follows : Latin oration, Henry Kingman, Boston, Mass.; French, Schailer Mathews, Portland; English, Willard C. Clement, Brandon, Vt.; Greek, Edwin P. Burt, Chelmsford, Mass...
...trustees of Andover Theological Seminary, Monday, elected Rev. George Harris of Providence, R. I., Abbot Professor of Systematic Divinity; Rev. E. Y. Hincks, recently of Portland, Me., Smith Professor of Theology, to be assigned to the department of Biblical Theology, and Rev. J. P. Taylor of New London, Ct., Taylor Professor of Biblical History and Theology and instructor in the Oriental languages. These gentlemen are all graduates of Andover in the classes of '69, '70 and '68, respectively. Mr. Harris is a graduate of Amherst College, and Mr. Taylor and Mr. Hincks are graduates of Yale...