Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...United States has large interests in the Samoan Islands, which require that their autonomy be preserved. (a) A commercial and naval station there will become of national consequence to us in the future.- Secretary Whitney's letter, Boston Post, Jan. 28. (b) American citizens and property require protection.- Samoan Affairs...
There are a number of good men trying for outfield positions. The whole number of candidates is thirteen. They are Ingalls, Neff, Woods, Whitney, Rankin, Lamont, Sawyer, Cummin, Jones and Riddle; while Viles, Grant and Wheeler will become candidates for the outfield positions if their services in the infield are not sufficiently appreciated...
...some idea of the kind of material which it will fall to his lot to train. The following are the candidates and the positions for which they are trying: S. E. Carpenter, Orcutt, McKay and Wheeler, 1st base; Lockett, Howell, Page, Spalding and Cady, infield; Ingalls, Neff, Woods, Whitney, Sawyer, Cummin, R. Jones and Riddle, outfield; Viles, Rankin, Hill, Churchill, Curtis, Grant, pitcher; Hollis and Bell, catcher. Of these there are several who have played on their preparatory school nines and the others all have more or less experience. Carpenter played first base on the St. Mark's nine...
...vesper service yesterday afternoon was opened with the hymn by the choir "Hark! hark the organ. Dr. McKenzie offered a prayer, after which the choir sang the anthem "A bide with us," by Whitney. The address was made by Rev. William Lawrence. The speaker read from the Bible the account of Peter's attempt to persuade his Master not to go to Jerusalem and of Christ's answer to the tempter. Peter, the speaker said, had been the first to realize the meaning of the Saviour's mission, but when the time came for self-denial and for action...
...send out a section of it every two months thereafter, and thus to complete it within two years, the entire work making six volumes with about 6,500 pages. For seven years the labor on this important work has gone forward under the direction of Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale, who has been the editor in chief of the enterprise, and for the past two years the printers have been engaged in typesetting in order that the actual time of publication might not extend over too long a period...