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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile walk was Harvard's, first, last and all the time, - although for an instant an ephemeral hope was born in Yale men's breasts by a sudden spurt of Wright's in the fourth lap. He had hardly gotten the lead when he fell from exhaustion and Endicott, Bardeen and Norton of Harvard finished in the order named - the tie which the judges declared to have been between Endicott and Bardeen being given to the former by the latter. Pierson of Yale was a hopeless and indisputable last
...Adams, though born in New Hampshire, went to Chicago when very young. He fitted from Phillips Exeter and graduated from there in '56, and four years later took his degree from Harvard College, and in 1863 he completed his course in the Law School. He has served in the State Senate of Illinois and has held the position as president of the Harvard Club in Chicago, and is at present president of the Union League Club...
...judging Byron it is impossible to separate his personal from his literary character. And yet a critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems...
...clock yesterday morning. He was very ill with pneumonia last October, and at that time was not expected to recover. During the winter he has not been well and Monday, March 21, he was attacked again by the illness which has lingered along until yesterday morning. He was born in Cambridge, March 16, 1869. His father, James Jennison, graduated from the college in the class of '47, and from 1851-60 was instructor in elocution in the University...
...oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College, Rev. Dr. Frederick A. Farley, of the class of 1818, died at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday. He was in his 92d year, having been born in Boston on June...