Amherst College Catalogue for the Year 1900–1901: Frank Edward Wade, Senior Class
1900 · Amherst College Catalogue for the Year 1900–1901 (Amherst, Massachusetts: published by the College, 1900)
Citation: Amherst College Catalogue for the Year 1900–1901 (Amherst, Massachusetts: published by the College, 1900), p. 16, Senior Class, entry for Wade, Frank Edward; p. 30, Award of Prizes 1899–1900, Ladd Prizes, Junior; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/amherstcollegeca1900amhe, scans n20 and n35), accessed 9 November 2026.
Transcription
Senior Class (p. 16, scan n20); the list is printed in columns of name, home town and college room, and the OCR separates the columns, so the name and home town are given here as they pair on the page:
Vanderbilt, John Leonard ... Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wade, Frank Edward ... Brooklyn, N. Y.
Walker, Stuart ... Boston, Mass.
Award of Prizes, 1899–1900 (p. 30, scan n35):
LADD PRIZES JUNIOR
Edward Tracy Clark
William Minott Clark
Rowland Backus Dodge
Noble Strong Elderkin, Jr.
Hervey Pierrepont Houghton
Aubrey Constantine Kretschmar
Charles Nelson Lovell
Charles Edward Robertson
Eastwood Pillsbury Thompson
Frank Edward Wade
Reuben Field Wells
The catalogue describes the prize in its section on prizes: "The Ladd Prizes of fifty dollars in books, given by J. W. Ladd of Portland, Oregon, to members of the class in public speaking who excel in oratorical composition the second term of Junior year."
What it says, against the tree
| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Edward Wade (1877–1946) | Education | Senior at Amherst College, 1900–1901 (class of 1901) | No education fact; the biography has "graduated from Amherst College in 1901" from his 1946 obituary | agrees |
| Frank Edward Wade (1877–1946) | Residence | Home town Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900 | Residence 1900, Hampden, Massachusetts (census at college) and in his father's household in Brooklyn | agrees |
| Frank Edward Wade (1877–1946) | Award | One of the Ladd Prizes for oratorical composition, Junior year, 1899–1900 | — | new |