Word: brimmer
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This prize was founded by the late Waldo Higginson, of Boston, of the Class of 1833, in memory of his brother-in-law, George Brimmer Sohier, of the Class of 1852. The endowment is for "one prize of two hundred and fifty dollars for the best thesis presented by a successful candidate for Honors in English or in Modern Literature. If no thesis is deemed worthy of a prize, no prize will be given." "The competitors may be either:--(1) undergraduates in Harvard College; (2) Harvard graduates who are resident at the University as students in the Graduate School...
...Nelson was born in Boston in 1878 and after attending the Brimmer School and the English High School he entered the University. He was graduated from the College in 1900 and from the Medical School in 1904, taking his master's degree a year later. After studying in Germany he returned to Boston and took up his practice...