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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 209 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 8 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 4 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1856. (search)
1857; spent a year in the Law School at Cambridge; but afterwards left that department of the University for the Scientific School, where he obtained a degree in Mathematics in 1861. At this period the first trait which impressed a stranger on meeting him was his distinguished physical aspect. Those present at the College Regatta at Springfield, in 1855, will remember the admiration excited by the picked crew of the Harvard four-oar, the Y. Y. composed of John and Langdon Erving, Alexander Agassiz, and Stephen Perkins. Three of these young men, including Stephen, were over six feet in height, and all were in the finest condition, according to the standard of training in those early days. Discouraged at the very first stroke pulled, by the breaking of the stretcher of the strokeoar, they yet rowed a stern-race with perseverance so admirable, that they lacked but three or four seconds of victory, being then beaten only by the six-oar of their own University. To this result, as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
h interest in the class for singing. He was one of the members of the Temperance Society connected with the University, of which he was successively Secretary, Vice-President, and President. During the Sophomore year botany and chemistry were included in the course of instruction, and into these studies Crane entered with enthusiasm. Few of the students under the instruction of Professors Gray and Cooke made such rapid progress in these departments. He also attended the lectures of Professor Agassiz on Comparative Zoology, and gave much time to the French and Spanish languages. He entered heartily into all the innocent relaxations of college life. When a military company was formed among the students, he showed great alacrity in joining it, and was conspicuous for punctual attendance at drills, and for eagerness to perfect himself in tactics. He had become a member of the Uuitarian Church at East Boston, in company with eight of his young companions, on New-Year's day, 1860.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
137, 186, 200. Abbott, G., II. 77. Abbott, H. L., Brev. Brig.-Gen., Memoir, II. 91-104. Also, I. 355, 429;; II. 84, 90;, 106, 455. Abbott, J. G., Judge, I. 255; II. 77, 91;. Adams, J. Q., I. 90. Adams, Z. B., Capt., II. 326. Agassiz, Alexander, I. 351. Agassiz, L., Prof., II. 375. Ainsworth, Henry, II. 426. Alden, J., II. 207. Alden, L. C., Lieut., Memoir, II. 207-214. Alden, Nancy A., II. 207. Alden, William V., II. 207. Allen, L. F., I. 2,16. AllenAgassiz, L., Prof., II. 375. Ainsworth, Henry, II. 426. Alden, J., II. 207. Alden, L. C., Lieut., Memoir, II. 207-214. Alden, Nancy A., II. 207. Alden, William V., II. 207. Allen, L. F., I. 2,16. Allen, T. P., II. 219, 250;. Alley, L. F., Lieut., II. 95, 99;. Almy, C., II. 216. Almy, Job, II. 215. Almy John, II. 215. Almy, Mary, II. 215. Almy, Pardon, Lieut., Memoir, II. 215-218. Also, II. 210, 210;. Almy, P. ., II. 215. Almy, S., II. 215. Almy, W., II. 215. Alvord, J. W., Rev., Il 311. Amory, John. 1. 370. Amory, Jonathan, 1. 133. Amory, C. W., Lieut., II. 330. Amory, T. J. C., Col., II. 112. Anderson, R. H., Maj.-Gen. (Rebel service), I. 16.