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After graduation from College, Professor Gray entered the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1861. He was in the Civil War serving in many capacities, eventually as major and judge advocate of United States Volunteers on the staff of Generals Foster and Gillmore. In 1869, he became a lecturer in the Harvard Law School where he was made Storey Professor, of Law in 1875. In 1883 he was promoted to the Royal Professorship which has been associated with his name for nearly thirty years...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...
Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July...
...keen interest in political development seems to be at last aroused, if we may judge from the spread of commission government and from the use of the referendum. A broad view of the results gives one clear and encouraging answer as to their meaning, namely, that not since the Civil War have the people voted as thoughtfully as they did last week...
...decrease of 6, but the Dental School more than makes up for that loss, showing a gain of 43. 1911 1910 Harvard College: Seniors, 368 374 Juniors, 529 481 Sophomores, 489 511 Freshmen, 744 666 Special, 46 68 Unclassified, 77 91 -- -- 2253 2191 Graduate School of Applied Science: Civil En'g, 17 16 Mechanical En'g, 6 4 Electrical En'g, 14 13 Mining, 11 Metallurgy, 4 23 Archaeology, 26 20 Landscape Arch., 6 13 Applied Biol., 8 7 Applied Chem., 2 1 Applied Physics, Applied Geology, 1 Forestry, 16 18 -- -- 111 115 Lawrence Scientific School, 1 Graduate School...