Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consider some means of endowing a professorship at Amherst College in memory of the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Among those present were Rev. Dr. J. H. Seelye, president of Amherst College; Henry D. Hyde of Boston, chairman of the finance committee of the board of trustees; Rev. William H. Ward and Colonel Mason W. Tyler. Charles D. Adams presided. It was proposed to raise $50,000 to endow the professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held by Dr. Edward Hitchcock. President Seelye gave a detailed statement of the financial condition...
...William H. Mills, '80, and Robert Luce, '82, are soon to begin the publication of a new journal, "The Writer," a monthly magazine, to interest and help all literary workers. The subscription is to be but $1 a year, and the magazine bids fair to take a permanent place among the other monthlies of the present time...
...next number of the "Atlantic Monthly" will contain among others the following articles: "On the Big Horn," John Greenleaf Whittier; Song, Mary N. Prescott; 'The Second Son," XII.-XVI. M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich; "Russia in Asia," W. H. Ray; "Lazarus Mart'n, de Cullud Lieyer," William W. Archer; "Via Crucis," Edward Irenaeus Stevens; "Paul Patoff," VIII., IX. F. Marion Crawford; "A Tory Parson," Louise Imogen Gurney; "The Pleasure of the King," Henry Guy Carleton; "Our Hundred Days in Europe." II. Oliver Wendell Holmes; General McClellan...
...officers of the meeting were Mr. Outram Bangs, '84, judge of wrestling; Dr. William Appleton, '72, referee of sparring; Mr. J. S. Fay, Jr., and Mr. J. P. Hawes, judges of sparring...
...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...