Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ebenezer Hall, who there published the N. E. Chronicle and Essex Gazette. In 1780, Stoughton Hall was torn down, as it was pronounced unsafe on account of the poor masonry. It was begun in 1698 and finished two years later, at the cost of L1000, given by Lieutenant-Governor William Stoughton...
...American Society for Psychical Research held a public meeting last Wednesday evening in the rooms of the Boston Natural History Society. Professor William James, of Harvard, was in the chair in the absence of the president, and received the reports of two committees: one on Mediumistic Phenomena, and the other on Phantasms and Presentiments...
...which was very prettily decorated for the occasion. The music as usual was very fine, and all the arrangements were made with that care which is always characteristic of the parties. The matrons were, Mrs. Frederick L. Ames, Mrs. A. Lawrence Mason, Mrs. Frederick R. Sears, Jr., and Mrs. William A. Burnham, and the managers were W. S. Ellis, L. H. Morgan, R. F. Perkins, and H. M. Sears, all from the senior class...
...William Lawrence and Dr. F. G. Peabody conducted the weekly vesper service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The pews were well filled with students and with Cambridge people...
...Williamson has selected, as trustees of the new school, Messrs. John Wanamaker, Franklin B Gowan, Lemuel Coffin, William C. Ledwith, John Baird, Edward Longstrath, Henry C. Townsend, James W. Brooks and Alfred Helmbold, the last gentleman being the donor's private secretary. The trustees have organized and elected Mr. Baird as president, Mr. Brooks as treasurer and Mr. Helmbold as secretary...