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...name Berg is of Germanic and not of Jewish origin, and although there are some Jews named Berg, many of these have acquired the name by dropping the prefix Blum, Green and Rosen, but even with these included, they form only a small minority compared to the Christian Bergs...
...organization had its origin in a small group of Law School students brought together in 1893 by Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76, who has since retired from the Faculty of the Law School...
...this development is of relatively recent origin, and it is only with the passing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, that we must mourn the departure of the great conversationalists. Among all the charming talkers of the Saturday Club, one of Boston's proudest traditions, where gathered for dinner Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, and others, he was admitted to be the most sparkling. It is fortunate that his wit and brilliance have been preserved for posterity in the table talks of the "Autocrat" and the "Professor...
...typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last week in Rio de Janeiro. It became known that a Brazilian admirer, conscious of my flair for describing animals (both domestic and wild) had sent to my hotel an armadillo, a creature for whose origin I facetiously accounted in my Just So story about the porcupine and the tortoise. I kept the gift one day, then I returned it explaining: 'Hotel-life is too terrible a fate for an armadillo...
...Magna cum laude Harvard '06, technical adviser to the Paris Peace Commission, author of The Second Partition of Poland, The Origin of the War of 1870 and (with Professors Charles Downer Hazen and Archibald Gary Coolidge and the late William R. Thayer) Three Peace Congresses of the Nineteenth Century...