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George Romney has been most unfortunate in his biographers. Among his acquaintances there were but two who possessed any literary talent. They were Cumberland and Hayley and each wrote a dry and inaccurate biography of him. The best account of his life is that written by his son. Romney never belonged to the Royal Academy...
Herbert Putnam '83, has been appointed librarian of the Boston Public Library and has accepted the appointment. He will assume the duties of his position on Monday next. Mr. Putnam is a son of the well known publisher of that name. After graduating from Harvard he spent a year in the Columbia Law School, from which he went to Minneapolis, where he was admitted to the Minnesota bar. He was soon drawn into library work, however, and became librarian of the Minneapolis Athenaeum, then containing about ten thousand volumes, which it was intended to incorporate in a larger and freer...
...different groups. The balcony will soon have cases for the reception of the specimens expected in March and the whole series will be supplemented by the very interesting collection of flowerless plants placed in the Museum by Professors Farlow and Thaxter. Professor Goodale states that the Blaschkas, father and son, now send annually one hundred complete models with all analytical details. At this rate of activity of production, there will be in place, before the end of the next two years, an adequate representation of all important North American genera. The contract, however, with these artists has more than five...
Herbert Hayes Norton, of the class of 1892, died at his home, Winona, Minn., December 11, 1894. His illness was very short and his death unexpected. He was the son of Matthew G. Norton and was born at Winona, August 15, 1868. At the age of eighteen he entered Hamline University, where he remained two years. The next year and a half he spent abroad, travelling and studying. Then returning, in the fall of 1889, he joined the junior class at Hamline. He completed this year and in the following autumn came to Harvard, where he was admitted...
...Moors was born in Groton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1819. He was a farmer's son, and was educated in the public schools and seminary. He entered Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1842. He graduated from the Divinity School, Cambridge, in 1845; was ordained and made pastor of the Unitarian Church, Deerfield, Jan. 28, 1846 and dismissed in April, 1861; was installed pastor of the Unitarian Society of Greenfield, April 22, 1861. Here his principal life work was done. He remained pastor until 1885, and came to be the most widely known clergyman of liberal faith in the Connecticut Valley...