Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Henry N. Nelson, '80, has been appointed private secretary to Speaker Carlisle...
...regular quarterly meeting of the Harvard Club of San Francisco, was held on January 17th at the Palace Hotel, thirty members present and Horace Davis presiding. Much enthusiasm and good-fellow-ship prevailed, and the following new members were added to the roll: Walter Nelson Bush, '82; H.H. Sherwood, '82; G. F. McLellan, '85; John C. Wigmore, '83; George Griswold, '80; John D. Sherwood, '83; Osgood Putnam '83. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, John W. Taylor; first vice-president, Judge B. C. Whitman; second vice-president, Professor George W. Minns; secretary, Frank...
Universities, as I understand them, are not absolutely essential to the teaching of professions. Let me make an extreme supposition. A great naval commander, like Nelson, is sent on board ship at eleven or twelve; his previous knowledge or general training is what you may suppose for that age. It is in the course of actual service, and in no other way, that he acquires his professional fitness for commanding fleets. Is this right or is it wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed...
...junior class, has appeared and is a very creditable production. The class day elections passed off without the usual hard feeling and personal bickerings. The best men were selected, irrespective of society claims. The elections resulted as follows: Opening address, Charles S. Jackson, Danbury, N. H.; oration, Nelson J. Whitehill, Ryegate, Vt.; poem. John Barstow, Haverhill, N. H.; address to the president, Herbert T. Kincaid, Troy, O.; campus address, William E. Cushman, Middleboro', Mass.; chronicles, William W. Niles, Jr., New York city; prophecies, Charles H. Brown, Vineyard Haven, Mass.; address at the Old Pine, William Quinby, North Sandwich...
Rhett, '80, and Whitman and Nelson, '81, have entered the first year of the Law School...