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...Palfrey, Kirkland, Clarke, Hedge and Norton, besides many less well known. It is rich in characterization and anecdote and reminiscence, and will be treasured by all Harvard men, students or graduates. The frontispiece is a portrait of the gentle scholar, Dr. Peabody. The book will be brought out by Ticknor and Co. this month.- Boston Gazette...
...Estes Howe of Cambridge died yesterday morning. He was born in 1815, and was graduated at Harvard in the class of 1832. Among his class were Josiah G. Abbott. Horatius Bigelow, George Ticknor Curtis, John S. Dwight, John T. Morse, Le Baron Russell, Stephen Salisbury, Augustus Story and many other well-known...
...which he now conducts. It has for years been conceded that Mr. Jones is the one man fitted to give elocution a scientific form that it might be studied here by students to advantage. This is seen in the fact that Mr. Jones was appointed to succeed Messrs. Riddle, Ticknor, and Sargent with a salary equal to theirs' combined. Shortly after his appointment Mr. Jones' position was made permanent. In recognition of the fact that he had succeeded in making class work a success, (individual work only had before been possible) he was given a half-course in elective study...
...meetings of the first Harvard Union, a debating society which was formed in February, 1832, by certain members of the senior and junior classes, for improvement in the art of addressing considerable audiences, and which remained in existence until July 1839. The first officers of the society were Geo. Ticknor Carter, president; Daniel Fletcher Webster, vice-pres.; James A. Dorr, secretary; Francis (now professor) Bowen, treasurer. There was also an executive-committee which appointed a lecturer and one disputant for each side of the question for debate at each meeting. The society at one time "hired the old court house...
...expediency of establishing a society for improvement in the art of addressing considerable audiences, and a committee of five was appointed to draw up a constitutio." At the first regular meeting of society, February 24th, a constitution was adopted and the following officers were elected: Senior president, Geo. Ticknor Curtis; junior president, Daniel Fletcher Webster; senior secretary, Jas. A. Dorr; junior secretary, Francis (now Professor) Bowen. The constitution and by laws have been lost, but entries in the journal show that there was an executive committee whose business was to submit questions for debate and to appoint a lecturer...