Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last week, Dr. Lewis G. Janes, the director of the conferences, read a valuable paper on an interesting but little known pioneer and philosopher of the Colonial era, Samuel Gorton, the first settler of Warwick, R. I. The paper was largely the product of original research in unpublished manuscripts. The remaining lectures on Wednesdays during February will be given as follows...
...classmate at Harvard, Garrison had no college education, and Horace Mann graduated at Brown. From Brown, too, came Dr. S. G. Howe, instructor of the blind. Bulfinch, the architect, and Peirce, the mathematician, went to Harvard; Agassiz fitted at several Continental universities. Franklin, Bowditch, the navigator, and Putnam, the settler of the Northwest, had no college education. Five of the original colonists - Winthrop, Carver, Endicott, Bradford and Vane - are appropriately remembered; the first studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the last at Oxford...