Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Within the last few weeks five new scholarships of $1,000 each have been sctablished by a gentleman who does not desire his name disclosed. They are named after the five earliest presidents of the college, Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies and Samuel Finley...
...Yale at that time. Charles J. Russ, of Hartford, was in the law school, and at the academic department from Hartford were Henry Smith and Thomas A. Thacher, seniors; Henry w. Bacon, P. W. Elsworth, William D. Ely, Austin Isham and Albert Todd, jumors; Charles Buck, Aaron L. Chapin, Thomas M. Day, Thomas Dutton, John Cotton Mather, John P. Putnam, Luther Scarborough, John W. Seymour and Edmund Terry, sophomores; and Charles F. Smith, freshman. Other 'boys' who were then in college were Chief Justice Waite, Senator Evarts, Professors Lyman and Silliman, the Hon. Henry C. Deming, John Hooker...
...Lamb in her chapter on the incidents in connection with Lafayette's visit. "Stephen A. Douglass and the Free Soilers" is the title of a brief but very enjoyable sketch of the political squabbles during the years 1850-61. Mr. Chas. H. Peck, in his admirable exposition of Aaron Burr's political career, has very ably supported the political role played by Burr in opposition to his rival Hamilton until he comes to the darkest page of Burr's life-the attempt to dismember the Union. It may be well, however, for those who are prone to criticize Burr...
...Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch is by Walstein Root, on the "Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1794," the germ of Hamilton College. The fourth article in this superb number is a study by Charles H. Peck of the public life and character of "Aaron Burr," in which he aims to substitute natural explanations for the acts and misfortunes of his extraordinary subject. Then follows, from G. Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, "An Interesting Dialogue in 1676, between Bacon, 'the rebel,' and John Goode of Whitby." Judge J. Tarbell, of Washington contributes...
...death of Aaron Rogers Crane the members of the senior class feel that they have lost a sincere friend, an earnest worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...