Word: wentworth
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...events held yesterday were the 50-yard dash and the distance plunge. The results were as follows: In the 50-yard dash--H. R. Hitchcock '14, 27 seconds; O. R. Sigourney '15, 29 seconds; M. J. Logan '15, 29 4-5 seconds; E. A. Starbuck '14 and J. Wentworth '14, 30 seconds These men will compose the relay team which will meet the Waltham Swimming Club team next Monday evening...
...University team, the most promising candidates are: C. F. Brooks '12, W. C. Codman '12, A. B. Day '13, J. R. Desha '12, H. R. Hitchcock '14, W. H. Hoogs '14, D. Lawson '13, B. Pitman '12, and J. Wentworth '14 in the 50 and 100-yard dashes, and W. J. Ball '13, N. Curtis '14, and H. R. Hitchcock '14 in the distance plunge. The majority of the candidates have been playing water polo but a first team has not yet been selected...
...memorial meeting to commemorate the life and service of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 was held in Sanders Theatre last night, the eve of Colonel Higginson's birthday. Mr. R. H. Dana '74, president of the Cambridge Historical Society, presided. Mr. Dana spoke of the active life that Colonel Higginson led in the public service. His two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature brought out that independence of action and of thought that so characterized his life. Colonel Higginson was the Democratic candidate for Congress in 1888 and although defeated, his sturdy fight did much to prepare...
...Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...
Memorial exercises in commemoration of life and services of Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 in Sanders Theatre...