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...track had been divided by lines into three courses, for the one-hundred-yards slow race. - a capital idea, as it prevented fouls, and required skilful riding to keep within the limits, S. Williston, '82, and J. H. Taylor, B. I., started; but the former soon fell off his machine, and the latter simply rode over the course...
...following men have been elected into the Everett Athenaeum: C. H. Holman, F. R. Burton, J. H. Beale, W. B. Fiske, G. C. Van Benthysen, E. H. Mariett, R. Cumming, A. M. Allen, S. Williston, H. L. Chase, C. A. Mitchell, S. H. Morrill...
Stevens, E. K. Williston...
...fact that among the pupils of the first year at the academy were John Abbott and Josiah Quincy, who became respectively a tutor and the president of this college. President Kirkland also graduated at Andover. The first principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, and the founder and first principal of Williston Seminary, were Andover graduates...
...Wright was examined for entrance to college in August, 1848, after three or four months' preparation at the Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He "hated" the classics, and his knowledge of them was very meagre. Indeed, it seemed at one time as if his shortcomings in this study would hinder him from entering. Means were taken to secure his admission that in these stern days would hardly be thought efficacious: "I have seen the President," writes a lady, "and said all I could for Chauncey, and I have no doubt he will get in." The lady's influence, however, was not strong...