Word: williams
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Next came the ivy orator, Mr. William Bancroft Hill, of Temple, N. H., who kept his audience constantly entertained. His oration was marked by an easy, characteristic humor, and was distinguished from the customary productions of the kind by the presence of a vein of pathos, which is always an element in humor of the highest quality...
...unwearied devotion of Mr. Sibley has been rewarded by the discovery of particulars concerning the death of many of the older graduates. Among these are Samuel Cobbett of Lynn, class of 1663, who died at Fairfield, Conn., 1713; Pascal Nelson, class of 1721, died at London, Eng., 1760; William Phipps of Cambridge, class of 1728, died at Pemaquid, Me., 1750 - 51; Samuel Moffatt, class of 1758, died at Demarara, 1780. The Necrology contains the names of seventy-five Academic graduates, fifty-eight of whom have died since last Commencement...
During the year William Freeman, the oldest living graduate, passed away, nearly ninety-six years of age, leaving the venerable Joseph Head, class of 1804, patriarch of the Alumni. There still remains at least one representative of every class since 1803, with the exception...
...Take it, William, take it away...
PROFESSORS Francis J. Child, William W. Goodwin, and James B. Greenough of Harvard, are expected to take part in the meeting of the American Philological Society at Newport, R. I., beginning July...