Word: sons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Five new prizes have been founded at the University of Pennsylvania by Henry C. Terry, a prominent member of the Philadelphia bar, in memory of his son, Willis Terry. Four of these prizes are to be awarded for the best standing in each of the four college classes, and the fifth for the best essay by a member of the Senior class...
...made a professor of Harvard. The Museum founded by him in 1859 has since developed into an establishment which has cost over a million of dollars, and which has an invested endowment of nearly $600,000. However, the building which he planned is not yet finished and, although his son and successor as Director of the Museum has aided the Museum financially, the poverty of the establishment is hardly concealed. The later generations who are reaping the benefit of Agassiz's great inspiration should hasten the completion of the Museum...
...class of Nineteen Hundred of Harvard University extend to you our deepest sympathy in the loss of your son, Edwin Clifton Warren...
...live up to the reputation given us by a prominent Western man who in comparing Harvard with some other Eastern university remarked: "If you send your son to this college," referring to the other university, "you make a man of him. If you send him to Harvard you make that man a gentleman...
...behalf of the class we offer to his mother our heartiest sympathies in her great loss, and the assurances that we join with her in mourning the death of her son...