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Colonel Higginson's subject was "People Whom I have Known." In a most delightful manner he gave his personal recollections of some of the most famous personages he had come in contact with during his career: Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate and Wendell Phillips, the greatest orators of their time, and in the literary world, James Russell Lowell, with whom Colonel Higginson went to school, John Greenleaf Whittier, Margaret Fuller, and Longfellow, who was professor of French at Harvard when Col. Higginson was an undergraduate...
...Webster (B) Ozanne (H) Staunton...
...college. Of two painters, J. S. Copley and W. M. Hunt, the latter belonged to Harvard; and of three clergymen, Channing and Brooks graduated at Harvard, and Jonathan Edwards at Yale. Among statesmen are Pickering, John and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Everett, and Sumner of Harvard, Choate and Webster of Dartmouth, Andrew of Bowdoin, and Henry Wilson. The law is represented by Parsons, Shaw, Story and Allen, all but the last, whose selection has been criticised, being Harvard alumni. The Revolutionary generals, Knox and Lincoln, did not go to college; the two generals in the Rebellion, Devens and Bartlett...
...appear. Of the thirty-eight, Harvard claims twenty-five, viz., Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman, Emerson. Holmes, Lowell, Hunt, Channing, Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce, and Bulfinch; Bowdoin has three - Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Andrew; Dartmouth two - Webster and Choate; Yale two - Edwards and Morse; Brown two - Mann and Howe; Oxford, Dublin, and Munich have one each - Vane, Winthrop, and Agassiz, respectively...
...Boston May 19, 1809. He prepared for college at the Boston Latin School and entered Harvard in 1824. He graduated in 1828 and delivered one of the commencement orations. Later in life he received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard, Bowdoin, Kenyon and Cambridge. He studied law in Daniel Webster's office. In 1834 he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature and later to the United States Senate. He was a scholar of great ability and a member of many historical societies...