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Owen Wister '82, one of the best known graduates of the University in the field of letters, died in Cleveland, O., yesterday at the age of fifty-one years...
...foreign speaking, and many more are foreign with American sympathies. Politically they present a very grave problem to the city with which it is impossible to cope before these people can at least speak the language. Of course the large majority of these foreigners are of a working age, and therefore can not go to the regular schools. The city maintains night schools which are able to meet to a certain degree the demand for instruction in the districts where they are located. Outside of these, however, nine-tenths of all the instruction done last year among the foreigners...
...Babcock entered the English High School at the age of twelve and was graduated in 1835. At Harvard he was a classmate of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. He received honors both in the College and in the Divinity School, from which he was also graduated...
...George Faulkner '44, one of the old-time physicians of Jamaica Plain, died at his home on August 27 at the age of ninety-two years. He had been retired from active practice for a number of years...
George Faulkner received instruction at the academies in Billerica and in Westford, and at the age of fifteen he entered a store in Boston. Becoming dissatisfied with trade, he abandoned this line after three years, and devoted himself to study. He spent a year and a quarter at the academy at Leicester, and one year at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Harvard with his class as a Freshman. During his College life he taught school each winter...