Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Blenham, '78, a colonel in the U. S. army has been stationed at Union college for the purpose of taking charge of the military department there...
...opening exercises of Clark university took place Wednesday in the presence of fifteen hundred people in the main university building. General Devens began with a brief address of introduction and welcome; after a prayer, Colonel Washburn read a paper prepared by the founder, in which he said that although they had not the age of other universities, they had the privilege of using the experience of many centuries, and they proposed higher and better achievements than had yet been attempted. To the present department they intended to add others from time to time, until the full scope of the university...
...applying a formula of the old Pehlevi inscriptions to the shorter cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis. Grotfeend made out several of the letters accurately and several others proximately, but his material was too limited for him to do much more than read a few proper names in the inscriptions. Colonel (now Sir) Henry Rawlinson, a young English officer, while stationed in Persia in 1835, was attracted to the study of the inscriptions. He states that his work was altogether independent of Grotefend and other European scholars. He used a method similar to that of Grotefend and reached results much more advanced...
...Colonel John D. Washburn, Harvard '53, has been appointed consul-general to Switzerland...
...recent article on the same subject by General Wilcox. The other essays in the number are "Du Pont De Nemours" by J. G Rosengarten; "German Family and Social Life," by General A. E. Lee; "Thrilling Adventures of a Kentucky Pioneer" by Annie L. Wilson, and a short biography of Colonel H. B. Livingston by M. L. Delafield. The number ends with several pages of original documents, notes, queries, replies, jottings and notices...