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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cornelius C. Felton, afterwards president of Harvard, and among his class-mates were Edmund Quincy, former president Stearns of Amherst, and Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1833 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but he soon gave up the law to become head-master of the Boston Latin School. During the fifteen years in which he served in this position, he came in contact with a most remarkable set of boys. A few of them were Mayor Quincy of Boston, Rev. Dr. J. W. Thayer of the Divinity School, J. Q. Adams, Russell Sturgis, Professor J. B. Greenough, Robert...
...Dixwell left the Latin School and established a private school on Boylston place, where he taught for twenty years. Senator Lodge and Governor Wolcott were among his pupils. He gave up his work as a teacher in 1871, and retired to his home in Cambridge, where he had been living up to the time of his death. Mr. Dixwell was one of Harvard's oldest graduates...
...education in the College proper has not increased, that it has in fact decreased, and that the danger of complete co-education at Harvard exists no more today than it has in previous years. Professor Byerly dismisses as a test the admission of Radcliffe students in the Graduate School. He admits the second point raised by Professor Wendell: the professors lecture at Radcliffe for salaries when they might be doing research work, but says: "If Professor Wendell has discovered a method by which his colleagues can publish the results of their original research with pecuniary profit to themselves...
...Divinity School. Devotional Service with Sermon. Mr. J. B. W. Day. Divinity Chapel...
...union, the debates of the Senior, Junior and Sophomore Wigwams and the Junior and Sophomore Wranglers are very informal. The Freshman Union bears the same relation to the freshman class that the Yale Union does to the University. The Sheffield Union is the central debating association of the scientific school, the Kent Club of the law school, and the Leonard Bacon Club of the divinity school...