Word: thacher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular annual meeting of the Adams Academy alumni association was held at Quincy yesterday afternoon. Officers for the ensuing year are as follows: President, T. C. Thacher; vice-presidents, W. R. Tyler, W. O. Badger, Perry Lawton, F. Warren and H. DeY. Lentz; Sec. and Treas. J. O. Hall. After the alumni meeting the regular fall sports were held and were unusually successful. The tug-of-war was won by the third class...
...Wheaton, with the respects of J. Day." And before making comparisons a few words may be said as to who was in Yale at that time. Charles J. Russ, of Hartford, was in the law school, and at the academic department from Hartford were Henry Smith and Thomas A. Thacher, seniors; Henry w. Bacon, P. W. Elsworth, William D. Ely, Austin Isham and Albert Todd, jumors; Charles Buck, Aaron L. Chapin, Thomas M. Day, Thomas Dutton, John Cotton Mather, John P. Putnam, Luther Scarborough, John W. Seymour and Edmund Terry, sophomores; and Charles F. Smith, freshman. Other 'boys' who were...
...seniors expect to have an entertainment about the first of March to liquidate their class debt. The committee in charge is G. D. Mumford, W. J. Barlow, H. Odell, W. V. King, T. W. Thacher, and H. L. Cutting...
...again won second place, and in the doubles Chase and Pratt of Amherst were second. In 1886 Columbia was admitted, and all the colleges except Lehigh sent representatives. The tournament was held on the same grounds as the year before and Brinley won first prize in the singles with Thacher of Yale second; in the doubles Knapp and Thacher won first place after a close and exciting struggle with Brinley and Paddock of Yale, who won second place, In 1887 University of Pennsylvania was admitted, and all the colleges were represented at the tournament. The winners were, in singles...
...Knapp of Yale and Brinley of Trinity; doubles, Knapp and Shipman of Yale, and Chase and Pratt of Amherst. By 1886, all the leading American colleges of the East had joined the association. The tournament of '86 gave first prize in singles to Brinley of Trinity, and second to Thacher of Yale; in the doubles, to Knapp and Thacher of Yale and Brinley and Paddock of Trinity. In 1887, University of Penn, was represented for the first time. There were delegations from ten colleges. Sears of Harvard won the singles, with Campbell of Columbia second. Sears and Shaw of Harvard...