Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Time has introduced modifications in some of these features, but, however changed, they still remain the only essential con-comitants of the parade. The custom of parading was started in 1868-the campaign of Grant and Seymour. The college, as in all subsequent processions, went with the Republicans. Unfortunately for the antiquarian, however, the record of this procession is very incomplete. The reporter for the college paper was seized with a mental prostration while marching, and was unable afterwards to give a good account either of himself or of the procession. Notes taken by him on the march were...
...late Professor Sophocles was first "brought out," it is said, in 1836 by two Yale tutors, Messrs. N. P. Seymour and S. C. Brace, who had known him at Hartford, where he was living in obscurity with the manuscript of his Greek grammar packed away at the bottom of his trunk. They invited him to come to New Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room...
...Seymour Haden, the eminent English artist, has during the past week been the guest of Prof. Wolcott Gibbs...
Although Mr. Seymour I. Hudgens has been unable, by reason of lack of pecuniary means, to return to college this year, he will always be remembered by his host of friends for his many good qualities, and by all students in the university, by reason of his faithful service on the University Crew. During the last year his first book, entitled "Exeter, School-days, and Other Poems," was published by subscription, and it is to be regretted that many of the subscribers have neglected to take and pay for their copies. The book is well made in every respect...
...Seymour I. Hudgens is away from Cambridge, hard at work with the crew at the New London quarters, it is to be hoped that the subscribers for his little but handsome volume of poetry, "Exeter, School Days and Other Poems," will not forget their obligations to him, and accordingly call in at Moses King's book-store, and get their copies before leaving Cambridge for the summer vacation. Although the book was made chiefly for the subscribers, and its cost was incurred by reason of confidence in the subscribers, a number of copies additional were made to supply such additional...