Memorial Hall at Harvard Honors War Dead and Showcases Campus
A historical tour of Memorial Hall details its 140 fallen students and graduates, the Sanders Theatre, and the display of carved walnut arches. It notes Hemenway Gymnasium's athletic prominence, boat club housing, and women’s exam progress, plus the Museum of Zoology founded by Louis Agassiz and led by Alexander Agassiz. The piece previews Harvard’s 250th anniversary and campus enrollments.
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Harvard
Ware Hemenway Gymnasium
Museum of Zoology
Memorial Hall
University
Harvard University
Louis Agassiz
Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Memorial hall and dining hall at Sanders' Theatre
The article describes Memorial hall at Harvard and its 164 foot dining hall with vaulted roof and chandeliers, capable of seating a thousand. It notes the historic President’s House on Quincy street and contrasts past great Americans with contemporary times and moneyed values.
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Memorial Hall
Massachusetts
United States
Eliot
Harvard
College Yard
Quincy Street
Presidential House
Rick
Eugene Field The Talented Poet and Paragrapher
Eugene Field, 32, famed for Sharps and Flats in The Chicago News, rose from Amhert and Knox colleges to Missouri and later St Louis, Kansas City, Denver, and Chicago News. Guardian John Burgess guided him after his father died. he is married and writes verse praised as among America's best of the past dozen years.
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Mr. Field
Chicago News
R. M. Field
Missouri
Dred Scott
Eugene
Amherst
Mass
French
Williams College
Eastern School
John W. Burgess
Knox College
Galesburg
University of Missouri
Europe
Field
St. Louis Evening Journal
Kansas City
Denver
America
John P Richardson South Carolina governor elect profile
John Peter Richardson, born 1831, heir to a prominent South Carolina family, smartly progressed from South Carolina College graduate in 1849 to planter in Clarendon County. He served in the state House, joined the Confederate staff, aided reconstruction, and later held the offices of state treasurer before being elected governor in November without opposition.
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John Peter Richardson
South Carolina
John P. Richardson
Richard Richardson
Palmetto
Col. Richardson
South Carolina College
Columbia
Clarendon County
House of Representatives
Cantey
Commodore Gherardi Promoted to Brookyln Navy Yard Command
Commodore Gherardi promoted to take charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a new era of naval expansion begins. The article traces his long career from midshipman in 1846 through Civil War commands and later postings, noting his leadership at Fort Macon Mobile Bay and Pensacola as well as his ascent to commodore in 1884. It also cites Mr. Pond of New Zealand confirming volcanic dust fertility through seed growth tests.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Commodore Gherardi
Brooklyn
N. Y
Louisiana
Navy
Massachusetts
Naval Academy
Gherardi
Lancaster
Pacific
Atlantic
Fort Macon
Chocura
Port Royal
Western Gulf
Mobile Bay
Pequot
Jamestown
Pensacola
Naval Asylum
Philadelphia
Pond
New Zealand
Cleveland
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New England
Old College
Nova Scotia
University Theatre
Sanders
A. M. Sanders
Hemenway Gymnasium
Harvard Athletic Association
Cambridge
Department of Physical Training
Boat Club
Charles River
Longfellow
Holmes
Lowell
Harvard Boat Club
Sanders’ Theatre
Demosthenes
St. Chrysostom
Webster
Daniel
Eugene Field
The
New Orleans
New York
Cr. B. Ramsdell
Evans
Cooley Creamer
Alex'ferguson
Weld County
Greeley
Colo
Cinches
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
SPURS
Hart
Allied Science of Medicine
Evers
London
Sat-MuscaTelle Co
England
Tog
Evanovitch
P. O
Box
Mee
Work City
Soleagen
J.F. Fpreze
Greeley, Colo
Lanor-Savina
Dave K
Schlight & Field CO
Rochester, W. Y
Portland and Lonsville Cement
Plaster OF Paris
Cross Paints
Marshall and Welch
Omaha
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee
St Paul
Rock Island Freep Rt
Rockford
Elgin
Madison
Janesville
Beloit
Winona
LaCrosse
R. Miller
G. Cook
A. A. Woodbury
Aloop
A. Miner
Walnut Street
Justi
Madison Avenue
H. A. French
A. Igo
J. F. Fezer
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