Word: sons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Robert A. Taft son of Ex-President Taft, who graduated from the law School last year, won first honors in the class that took the Ohio State bar examinations last week, with a grade...
...Cele's mother was the sister of the Zulu king, and his father the chief of one of the principal tribes of that race. His father gave up his position as chieftain to become a missionary, sending his son to the Slater School in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and later to the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. Mr. Cele there spent seven years, and has just been graduated. During his course, he was President of the Y. M. C. A., captain of the first Company, and end on the football team...
...most recent biographies of note and one that should be of interest to every Harvard man, is the "Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz; With a Sketch of His Life and Work," edited by his son, G. R. Agassiz '84. The biography is unique and extremely entertaining. It could hardly be improved upon, for it gives a vivid idea of a great man's personality and of the amazing work which he accomplished...
...entered Harvard at fifteen and a half and graduated with many famous men. His thorough schooling abroad had made him already proficient in Latin and Greek, but his son says: 'Agassiz had, however, no natural sympathy for the classics and the scientific trend given to his early studies had intensified a dislike of the subtle analysis, of language and the dryness of grammatical hair-splitting...
...SIXTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1913, THIS CORNERSTONE OF THE HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY WAS LAID BY MRS. GEORGE DUNTON WIDENER WHO GIVES THE BUILDING AS A MEMORIAL TO HER SON HARRY ELKINS WIDENER BORN JANUARY 3, 1885 GRADUATED FROM HARVARD COLLEGE IN 1907 LOST IN THE WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP TITANIC...