Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Before the war, as no American college would receive a colored pupil, he went to Oxford and received there an education. He is now rector of St. Luke's church, Washington, D. C. Mr. Cutting, though a layman, has had vast experience in missionary work, and no man who is at all interested in the subject, can fail to be benefited by his advice...
DEAR SIRS.- Allow me to call attention to one source of the disorder and inefficiency in the Co-operative which I have had in mind for some time and which seems to have escaped general notice. I refer to the fact that Mr. Waterman the superintendent when he went into business in Boston on his own account, took with him, drafting off into his own business, most of the best clerks and employees of the Co-operative, and turned most of the work of the Society over to new hands. No store or business house could stand that, you know...
...recess, and was attended by delegates from all parts of the United States. The first session on Thursday, December 26, was opened by the president, James Russell Lowell, who introduced the first speaker of the evening, President Eliot. Mr. Eliot, after welcoming the members of the association to Harvard, went on to compare the instruction given in modern languages in college now and in former times. He said that the Smith professorship, founded in 1816, was the first professorship of modern languages in the country. It has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. Since...