Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LEVERETT...
...following men were elected officers of the St. Paul's Society for the ensuing half-year : President, J. Hays Gardiner, '85; vice-president, E. E. Hamlin; '86; secretary, W. Leverett, '85; treasurer, H. A. Griffin, '86; librarian, J. L. Snelling...
...several events were very neat cups, and were presented immediately after the races. Taking everything into account the races were very successful, and the Canoe Club are to be congratulated on the excellent showing they made. The referee was Mr. Mason, '84, and the judge at the stake, Mr. Leverett...
...translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped by Nyot, Leverett, Zoheth, Gad, Elbtidge, Epes, Byron and Shearjashub. Many Hebrew names stand unchanged, as Jared, Samuel, Benjamin, Thomas. James is "Latinized" into Jacobus, so that no "us" can be attached to Jacob, as is done in Adamus, Sethus, Abrahamus and Isaacus...
Some of the men to whom the college points with pride began their career in the school, among others Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett and Eliot, and Professor Josiah P. Cook. Other distinguished alumni were Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, while the present century has witnessed the graduation from the school of Charles Sumner, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hosts of others who have attained distinction, but whose names cannot be here given...