Word: william
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...with the history of the city is told in a charming manner. The article is illustrated with many pictures, some of the places as they are now and others copied from old prints, as they have been in the past. "America, the World's Puzzle in Geography," by Rev. William Barrows, D. D., is of especial interest only to students of American history. President J. C. Welling of Columbian University contributes an elaborate discussion of the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" in answer to a recent article on the same subject by General Wilcox. The other essays in the number...
...death last November of Mr. William W. Allen of the class of 1817, Mr. Samuel Edmund Sewall of the same class became senior alumnus. On the 20th of December, however, Mr. Sewall also passed away and left this position to the only surviving member of the class of 1817, Hon. George Bancroft, the well known American historian, who was born October 3, 1801. Mr. Bancroft, although first in college seniority, is yet younger than three living members of the class of 1818-Mr. Sidney Bartlett, born in February, 1799; Rev. Francis A. Farley, born in June...
...Boston Athletic Association held a meeting last evening, in which the events were confined to contests in sparring and fencing, open to members of the B. A. A., Harvard University, M. I. T., B. Y. M. C. U. and B. Y. M. C. A. Dr. William Appleton was referee of the boxing...
...interest of their first chapters. American history occupies a large share of the number. John Fiske contributes a paper on "Ticonderoga, Bennington and Oriskany," and Frank G. Cook, one on "Some Colonial Lawyers and their Work." Treating in more recent events is an article entitled "Personal Reminisences of William H. Seward," by his private secretary, Samuel J. Barrows, and his wife, Isabel C. Barrows. The article consists of a number of reminiscences told of a very interesting manner. Light fiction is represented by Elizabeth Bellamy with the first part of a Negro story called "Hannah Callmis Jin." There are also...
...William H. Wheeler has published a very interesting and full account of the recent meeting of the Harvard Republican Club at Tremont Temple. The report contains a list of the officers of the club and the speeches of the gentlemen who addressed the meeting. After the address of the president, W. C. Boyden, follow the speeches of Rev. E. E. Hale, Judge E. Rockwood Hoar, Hon. George D. Robinson, Col. N. P. Hallowell, Hon. George F. Hoar, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. John D. Long and E. J. Rich. In addition, letters sent by John G. Whittier and Hon. Theodore...