Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Carleton...
...DeForest, Curtis, Norton, J. F. Clarke, Ripley; Stedman offsets Bryant as coming between the two classes. Of non-college men a larger number may readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable error, and any one can add to either list according to his own judgment without materially disturbing the balance...
...Carleton...
...larger number next year. The first class was graduated in 1883, and the graduates found little difficulty in securing excellent positions as teachers in various schools and colleges. Miss Gregory is a professor of History in Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia; Miss Byrd is a professor of Mathematics at Carleton College, Minnesota, and had charge of the Time Service at the observatory, when changes were made in the standard time last year...
Graduates of the Annex are already becoming useful as educations themselves. Progress accounts for several as follows: "Miss Gregory is a professor in the natural history department of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Byrd is professor of mathematics at Carleton College, Minnersville, and had charge of the changes in the time service. She gained all her practical knowledge in the Harvard Observatory under Professor Pickering while she was a student at the Annex. Another graduate was for a time a professor in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., and is now in charge of the history department at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts...