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Professor Eli Whitney Blake, until the close of the last college year Hazard professor of physics at Brown University, died at Hampton, Conn., Tuesday, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in New Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics...
...present law is preferable to local option.- (a) Judgment of New York City is not so safe as that of the State.- (1) The population of N. Y. City being 80 per cent. foreign-born or children of foreign-born, is unfit to decide American excise questions: N. Y. Post, 9 Aug., '95.- (2) Saloons control the primaries, and local option would put the city government in the hands of saloon keepers entirely: Independent, 29 Aug., '95.- (b) Local Option is liable to grave abuse.- (1) In Wisconsin the town goes so far as to determine the rate of licenses...
...Born to Blush Unseen," A Father of Five...
Henry Du Pont Irving of the class of ninety-seven, died at his home on Staten Island at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Irving was born in staten Island on March 21, 1875. He entered Harvard from St. Paul's school where he had spent several years. At school he identified himself with athletics, and in his last year stroked the Halcyon crew. In his freshman year at college he was elected temporary captain of his class football team, and later in the year stroked the freshman crew in its race with Yale...
...LL.D.) Richard Morris Hunt, born 31 October, 1828, at Brattleboro, Vt.; died at Newport, R. I., 31 July...