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...legislature. An eventful controversy arose in 1824, upon a demand of all the instructors to representation in the governing board, who claimed that the term 'fellow' in its historic sense conferred the right to participate in the determination and decision of all university matters. Edward Everett and Professors Ticknor and Norton advocated with great earnestness and ability the right of all members of the faculty to seats in the governing board, while the legal members of the corporation and overseers maintained that representation could not be claimed as a right, either from the terms of the charter or from...
...name of President Eliot appears as tutor of mathematics, and of Professor Child as chairman of the parietal committee. Among the students appear as seniors : Charles Francis Adams of Quincy, Bennett Hubbard Nash and H. M. Ticknor; as junior, Mr. J. C. Ropes; as sophomores, Fisher Ames and Bradford L. Cilley of Exeter; as freshmen, F. E. Abbot, Alexander McKenzie, C. S. Peirce and C. J. White...
...Ticknor has resigned his position as instructor in elocution in the college...
...Sargent's sections in elocution now recite in Sanders Theatre. He has a number of men in training for the Boylston prizes, as have also Mr. Ticknor and Mr. Jones...
...went abroad to fit himself for the professorship of modern languages, to which his alma mater had appointed him. He returned to America and assumed the professorship at Bowdoin until 1835, when he was appointed by the faculty to fill the place of Mr. Geo. Ticknor, the professor of belles-lettres at Harvard University. In consequence of his appointment, he made another visit to Europe in the summer of 1835. While abroad his wife died, and Mr. Longfellow immediately returned home. In 1843 he married Miss Appleton of Boston, and took up his residence at the old Cragie house...