Word: ages
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Charles Amory 32 M., died yesterday morning at his home in Dorchester, at the age of eighty-four. He was born in Boston and prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. For many years he was engaged in the manufacturing business and was interested in many of the large mills of New England, but retired from business some years ago. For many years Mr. Amory lived in the house now occupied by the Puritan Club, which he had built for himself, but later he moved to Cambridge and finally to Dorchester...
...possibility of a hospital as an adjunct, are to be expected in the not remote future, though in the latter case, the means are not yet at hand. The establishment of a "Retiring Allowance Fund" on such a scale as to enable the Corporation to fix a retiring age for all officers of the University, is a cause which President Eliot thinks most worthy of generous assistance...
Samuel Welch Perkins '87, a wealthy sugar broker of New York, died Saturday in that city at the age of thirty...
...provost urges that the average age of young men entering college is still too high. This has a tendency to turn students into the professional schools without a preliminary college course. He closes with a reference in detail to the many needs of the university and urges generous consideration of its purposes from friends, alumni and from the state...
...great majority of the readers of yesterday's journals, the news of the death of Marshall Newell possibly signified simply that a noted athlete of exceptionally fine character had died at the early age of 27 years, but to all those of us who knew Marshall Newell I fancy there were few, as we read the sad news at the breakfast table while outside the bright sun was shining on the happy Christmas Day, who did not feel our eyes moisten and a heavy strain on our heart-strings...