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...Prince interests-Elisha Walker of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Lawyer Weymouth Kirkland, James A. McDonough and Banker Prince. Two represented Mr. Ulman-Mr. Ulman and his lawyer. The election of the other two marked the reentry of the Armours into Armour & Co. They were Lester Armour and his brother Philip Danforth...
This is the first disciplinary action for intoxication taken by the college, so far as the manuscript, written by Danforth as he presided over the court, is occupied by the testimony of the Harvard men. Whether the Harvard men were summoned first because they were the worst offenders or because Danforth, due to his position as treasurer of the College, wanted to get them out of court as soon as possible, is hard to tell. James Alling, whose age Danforth wrote down as "about 17," was the Freshman in whose rooms the party started. It is interesting to note that...
Just one hundred years before the American Revolution, Thomas Danforth, treasurer of Harvard College and justice of the peace in Cambridge, issued a warrant against three Harvard students, several town men, a soldier, and some of then female friends "to answer respectively for nightwalking and entertainment of such persons, with other inside meanors committed by them contrary to law" notably drinking...
...town, was unable to sign his name, reveals another visit to the College on January 3, with James Alling, the willing Freshman, fetching the pint to be again "mixt with sugar and water." The action of the college seems to have stopped with the slight fine imposed by Danforth in his capacity as justice of the peace. It is due to the investigation made necessary by the more serious scandals concerning the activities of Mary Ruggles, Hannah Arrington, and their accomplices, that we owe these records of seventeenth century Freshmen, their experiments with liquor, and the college's attitude toward...
...office, pointing to the Books, Seal, Keys, on the Table, which He delivered to him as Ensigns of his Office-power. After this, Mr. Leverett made a Short Speech in Latin to the Governor then Sir Holyoke made an Oration in Latin. In the Next place, Mr. Danforth Minister of Dorchester went to prayer; in the Last place part of the 132. Psalm was Sung; (closed with the Gloria Patri) and thus the Affair was ended...