 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1881 - 550 pages
...summer, attending the Academy in the fall, and teaching school in winter, he succeeded in not only fitting himself for college, but in preparing to enter...raising sufficient funds to liquidate all indebtedness incured to defray his college expenses, over and above what he received from his father's estate. Immediately... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1881 - 558 pages
...summer, attending the Academy in the fall, and teaching school in winter, he succeeded in not only fitting himself for college, but in preparing to enter...sought or received any honorary degree from his Alma Maicr. After leaving college, he taught the Academy at Topsfield, Mass., for a single term in the fall... | |
 | Duane Hamilton Hurd - Norfolk County (Mass.) - 1884 - 602 pages
...demonstration of it, which papers were to be deposited in the college library. At the close of the junior year he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. It was also during this year that the Harvardiana, a literary periodical, was started by members of... | |
 | Edwin Warriner - Brooklyn (N.Y.) - 1885 - 682 pages
...elected orator of his class, and in his sophomore year he won the prize for tlocution. In his senior year he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society as a recognition of superior scholarship. CONFERENCE RECORD: 1861, (New York East Conf.) Middlebury, Conn.;... | |
 | William Richard Cutter - New England - 1914 - 720 pages
...class of one hundred and eight, third prize in mathematics, second in Greek, and second, in French. In his junior year he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, being one of the eight who were chosen for that honor, which is conferred for scholarship. He also... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 554 pages
...1858. In 1850, Harvard College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts ; and, the same year, he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Mr. Livermore's library at this time had become a most valuable one ; and his thorough habits of investigation... | |
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... qualified to instruct a common district school. But with opportunity to learn and to read, a desire for a liberal education was awakened, and by alternately working upon his father's farm in the spring and summer, attending the Academy in the fall,... 