Amherst Graduates' Quarterly (Volume 3 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... Hayes Ward and Miss Hetta Hayes Ward, he will move shortly to South Berwick, Me., where they have a summer home. Dr. Ward is seventy-eight years old, but is in good health. Hv was associate editor of the Independent from 1868 to 1870; superintending editor from 1870 to 1896; and since then editor-inchief. 1865 Dr. Joseph H. Sawyer, principal of Williston Seminary, was absent from his post, on important school business, during part of the fall term, and in his place the duties of principal were performed by Charles A. Buffum, '75. 1867 Columbia University has appointed John W. Burgess as exchange professor to the Austrian universities for the year 1914-15. Alfred Hoyt Granger's "Charles Follen McKim," published in November by the Houghton Mifflin Co., is dedicated "to William Rutherford Mead, the last of a great Triumvirate." 1869 Williams Reynolds Brown, Secretary, 79 Park Avenue, New York City. Clarence Puller Boyden, principal of the Cohasset Grammar School, and for a long term superintendent of the schools in Taunton, died recently at his home in Cohasset, Mass. His connection with the public school system covered a period of more than 40 years. He was born in Attleboro, March 5th, 1846, the son of Alexander A. and Harriet G. (Fuller) Boyden. He received his early education in the public schools of that town and at the Stoughtonham Institute, Sharon. After his graduation he taught school for a year in North Providence, R. I., resigning to take up the study of law. He studied law with Judge Allen at Salem, N. Y., 187072, but owing to his father's death he gave up his legal studies and resumed teaching. He went to Taunton in 1872 as submaster in the high school there and was afterward principal of the Weir and Cohasset grammar schools. In 1899 he was ele...