Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resisting the seductive reasoning of his perceptive, comprehensive and analytic mind. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire once came to my seat and said: 'I am going to astonish you. Mr. Calhoun has just brought to me a letter, which he said he had just received from President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College, and asked me a great many questions about him and the college. He left asserting that President Lord was one of the ablest thinkers and profoundest reasoners in the country.' At that time President Lord was not only at the head of the college...
...justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has continued to increase in the number of students and professors until today it is one of the chief departments of the university and second to no law school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan...