Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Henry Dunster, 1640-1654; Charles Chauncey, 1654-1672; Leonard Hoar, 1672-1674; Winan Oakes, 1675-1681; John Rogers, 1682-1684; Increase Matlher, 1685-1701: Samuel Willard, 1701-1707; John Leverett, 1707-1724; William Wadsworth, 1725-1736; Edward Holyoke, 1737-1769; Samuel Locke, 1770-1773; Samuel Langdon, 1774-1780; Joseph Willard, 1781-1804; Samuel Webber, 1806-1810; John Thornton Kirkland, 1810-1828; Josiah Quincy, 1829-1855: Edward Everett, 1846-1849; Jared Sparks, 1849-1853; James Walker, 1853-1860; Cornelius Conway Felton, 1860-1862; Thomas Hill, 1862-1868; Charles W. Eliot...
...clock a.m. yesterday, 1238 graduates and visitors of the university had registered. Of these, 186 registered between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. yesterday morning, among whom were: Asaph Hall, Prof. of Mathematics, U. S. Navy, William DeW. Hyde, Pres. of Bowdoin College, Edward King '53, George D. B. Pepper, Pres. of Colby University, George W. Smith, Pres. of Trinity College, and the Rt. Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, M. P., Delegate from Edinburgh University. Henry M. Buckham, Pres. of the University of Vermont...
...Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built his hut on the Shawmut peninsula, not far from where Louisburg Square...
...together with his private character, for the honorable way in which the early records of Charlestown show that he was received here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august one in the history of American education. We know that at this very time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor in London, and giving himself to the writing of plays, had eclipsed...
...William Hopkins Tillinghast, the editor of the quinquennial catalogue, has compiled an interesting "Bundle of Statistics relating to the Graduates of Harvard University," which may be obtained at University 4. Every graduate should have a copy...