Word: william
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...William Bowdoin Hyler, of Thomaston, Maine, left Newport News, Virginia, on the fifteenth of last October. The vessel was bound for Barcelona, Spain, and has never been sighted or heard from since it left port. Hyler was a student in the Medical School the last two years. He was substitute pitcher on the 'varsity nine in the spring of 1893 and went on the trip that year. Before he entered the Medical School he attended Tufts College where he pitched on the nine. He was a good wrestler and a well-known member of the Boston Athletic Association...
Henry Clay Barnabee, W. H. MacDonald, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Caroline Hamilton, Eloise Morgan, Joseph Sheehan, Jerome Sykes, George Frothingham, Peter Lang, William Castleman, Mena Cleary, Clara Jewell, Chas. R. Hawley, James E. Miller, comprise the list of principals...
...William Pepper, ex-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, who resigned last June, has issued his biannual report, covering the period between October, 1892, and June, 1894. In it Dr. Pepper makes a comparison between the University as it was when he became provost in 1881 and at the time of his resignation. In 1881 the University owned 15 acres, there were 981 students, and the fees received from them amounted to $92,701; in 1894 the acreage of the university was 54, the number of students 2180, and the fees $230,567. During his provostship were added the Wharton...
...George William Curtis was a leader of men. He was such because he was himself a man, a whole man and a true man. He was always, in private as in public, in the home or on the street as upon the rostrum, the knight without peer and without reproach. His fires never paled. What he was before the public, that he was in the grain...
...William C. White, of Madison avenue, who is an expert in the art of cooking, is to utilize her talent for the benefit of Harvard students. She has taken a house at Cambridge and it ought not to be long before her boarding-house wins the popularity it is sure to deserve. There appears to be a demand for superior service in this line. - Springfield Republican...