Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Medical School: George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship: Thomas Foster Wheeldon, of Moberly, Mo.; John Ware Memorial Fellowship: Ernest Waters Wescott, of Boston; Charles Eliot Ware Memorial Fellowship: James Howard Brown, of Jamaica Plain; James Jackson Cabot Fellowship: George Richards Minot '08, of Boston; Lawson Gentry Lowrey, M.D. '15, of Excelsior Springs, Colo
...Hasty Pudding Theatre shortly after midnight Saturday night. There was a delay of about ten minutes in turning in the alarm, because the key, which is kept at 68 Mt. Auburn street could not be located. The fire started on the outside of the building in a bundle of excelsior which was wrapped about a pipe to prevent freezing...
There are few more appalling, pernicious, and thoroughly reprehensible tendencies in modern times than banner bearing. In the light of modern investigation we clearly see that the young man in Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...
...Tambour Battant,"Messager 2. Selection, "Naughty Marietta," Herbert 3. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 4. March, "The Aviator," Merrill 5. Selection, "Madame Sherry," Hoshna 6. a. Hail, Chicago! b. The Song of Chicago. 7. Selection, "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni 8. Waltz, "Espana," Waldteufel 9. American Fantasy, Herbert (Organ, Mr. Marshall). 10. a. Excelsior, Chicago! b. As We Go Marching On. 11. Czarina Mazurka, Ganne 12. March, "Le Pere, la Victoire," Ganne