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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Outside of his professional career, Professor Horsford engaged in many works of general utility. One of his first works on returning from Germany was to investigate and select the proper material for the service pipes of the Boston Water Works. He was a member of the committee for the defence of Boston Harbor in the Civil War. He also devised a marching ration for the army which was very widely adopted. In 1873 he was one of the United States' commissioners to the World's Fair in Vienna, and in 1876 he was commissioner at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia...
...Union held a meeting last evening in Sever 11, the purpose being to select representitives for the Yale debate which is to be held Jan. 13. Dean Briggs, Professor Taussig and Mr. Hayes were the judges and after being out forty minutes returned the names of four men, M. C. McLaughlin, '93, A. P. Stone, '93, C. Vrooman '95 and E. H. Warren, '95, of whom they said the Union might select the three speakers for the Yale debate...
...trial debate of the Harvard Union to select the speakers in the Yale debate will take place in the middle of January...
...expected to teach rowing, beginning with the very rudiments. After the freshman year the work of developing the crew is not so difficult. There are some men in the class who know how to row and the question is to develop good men for the positions, or perhaps to select the few who may be necessary to fill any vacant places from a small number of promising men. After the first year it is harder for a man who has never rowed before to get a position on his crew. With the freshman crew however, the situation is entirely different...
...meeting of the alumni and other persons who are interested in the erection of a new building for the Harvard Dental School will be held in the Horticulture Hall, Boston, today at 12 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to select the best method of obtaining the necessary money for the new building. President Eliot will preside and the Rev. Bishop Brooks and other prominent speakers will address the meeting...