New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-06
POOR MEN VHO DID WELL IN HARVARD.
PRIZE WINNERS WHO HAD TO PAY THEIR OWN
WAY THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY.

Boston, July speclaD.-some Of the Harvard
graduates of the last class are men Of great promise
and will be heard from later in life, obtaining Vheir
degrees under conditions which indicate pluch' pe'
verance and industry. The Record" says D. o.
COtter, who will practise law in Boston, Is Malilo
boy Of thirty. His father died sixteen years ago
He has supported himself throughout his cohege
course. His work has been chiefly book canVassiiis
in which he employed many men, he himself actins
as manager His work in the summer OF 1855 heV'eu
him 81 700. His work has been remarhaDie as no
leaves college with a balance Of $4,000 clear Oh a
expenses. His living last year cost him about
and he thinks 81 900 will also this years outlay
In 1887 he received an honorary mention In the his
tory and subsequently was graduated with standing
Of cum laude.
I'D. C. Torrey at the age of eleven went to Work
for the Glendale Elastic Fabric Company. AL nine
teen he in company with his brother, founded lhe
Southampton News and subsequently, they bought
out The Enterprise of that place. In 1856 ne
passed the entrance examinations at Harvard. Al
tho end Of his freshman year he took Bo"dolh
prize Of $3.50. He has tutored more or less, the
greater part being in the senior year. During MS
sophomore and junior year he, with c. H. More, 90
published The Harvard Index He will study Tor
the ministry Of the Methodist Church.
"Curvs Hidden Page, age twenty, without cond
IONS has taken two Price Greenleaf scholarships OF
$500 each, In the fall Of 1888 and the other In
the fall Of 1880. He has done great deal of tutoring
In French and EDguSn, Inc usual price LOT tutorHlS
being g. hour. He has completed the requisite
number Is 4-10 courses required by the university
and was graduated with his class, 1890.
1.-THE youngest member of his class, 9. B.
Gurleck, took the Bigelow prize Of $3.50
and in the fall of 1888 the savage prize Of $780, and
again in 1889 the Price Gvenleaf prize of $500 He
has employed his spare time tutoring while at college
and during his vacation in 1888 employed by the
insurance brokers' firm of George A. Bell son, and
In that of 1850 for Valentine Bergen Co., by whom
he had previously been employed.
~. L. TIyOn was born in Boston, November 81,
1864. 1t always his intention 10 go through
Harvard, but he lacked means at this time. He has
done good work on newspapers IN Portland and Boston
and Bangor He entered Harvard a special student
and has spent two years courses bearing on Journal
ism-hstory English, political ECONOMY and modern
1892 in the autumn and take BacheOr's degree.
lie is good stenographer and operator upon the type
writer. lie neither asked nor received aid from the
university but thanks to Secretary Bowles, he found
copying and work as a secretary for members and
officers Of the faculty.
n. R. Gladhill was born in 1869. He entered tho
university in the fall Of 1885 and in the first he
only carried successfully the regular work of the
freshman course but in addition removed all the bars
to his admission TO full and regular standing of the
present junior class Not only has he accomplished
this but he has also taken high rank among his class
mates, standing we'll up among the first twenty five
He has received every year share Of the annual pr1e
money OF the college and at the end Of his junior
year. has already received the requisite number OF
marks to enite him to degree magma cum hude.'