Word: smith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fencing - W. O. Underwood, '84; R. D. Foote, '86; R. D. Smith...
Professor Henry J. S. Smith of Oxford, whose death has already been announced, was a precocious student in childhood. He was able to read English at two years of age, and at four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank...
...Harvard Union meets tonight in Sever 11 at 7.30. The question for debate is-"Resolved, That the principles of German State Socialism are the true principles for government." Messrs. McIntosh, '84, and Hansen, '85, will be the disputants for the affirmative, and Messrs. W. D. Smith, '84, and Greenough Thayer, '85, for the negative...
Third round. - Again the fighting was hard, and aroused intense enthusiasm. Smith did better than in the preceding round, but still did not seem a match for his sturdy antagonist...
...contest was awarded to Page. Smith deserves great credit for his excellent and plucky work...