Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be read," seems to indicate that the lesson of the failure of its predecessor had been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were C. C. Felton, later professor of Greek and president of the University, George S. Hilliard and Robert B. Winthrop. Many articles of real literary merit appeared in its pages and it deserved a longer period of existence than it enjoyed. But indifference on the part of its contributors made its continued publication impracticable, and it died in 1828, about a year and a half after its foundation...
Prof. Shaler, in his paper in the March "Scribner," says at the time of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "John Winthrop, then professor of physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure...
...association. The treasurer reported a balance of $700 on hand. The following officers were elected: President, R. Faries of the University of Pennsylvania; vice-president, F. B. Stevens of Stevens College; secretary, W. M. Spalding of Princeton; treasurer, L. D. Godshall of Lafayette; executive committee, G. B. Winthrop and William Maurice. It was decided to offer a standing prize of a $50 gold medal for breaking records. As the association only holds in trust the prize known as the Harvard cup, it was decided to have a standard for it to be inscribed suitably for each new winner during...
...with the crews since his graduation, and has done more to raise the standard of rowing at Yale than any other man. The dinner was in every way a success. Many prominent graduates were present, among them were Hon. Henry E. Howland, Prof. Richards, Gen. George Peabody Wetmore, Buchanan Winthrop, Frederic W. Stevens, Sidney E. Morse, and George A. Adee. Following were some of the toasts: "Athletics at Yale," responded to by Prof. E. L. Richards, '60; "From Quinsigamond to the Thames," responded to by W. C. Gulliver, '70; "Graduate Interest in Boating," responded to by Anthony Higgins...
...Winthrop spoke with fervor of the festivities of fifty years ago, and eulogized "that young Henry Vane who presided over the little General Court of Massachusetts as Governor of the Commonwealth in that year, 1636, at the time the vote was passed endowing and founding and establishing this college...