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...many doctors read Printers' Ink? How many brokers ever peruse The Casket? How many barbers devote their spare time to India Rubber Review? Or actors to The Iron...
...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
Thousands streamed by his bier covered with flowers; a distinguished minister conducted the funeral services, and a notable cortege followed his casket to the cemetery. One wreath, proclaimed as costing $250, bore a written tribute to the desperado's alleged bravery displayed while engaged in banditry, and railed at the betrayal of his friendship by his executioner...
...from the Higginson home to the church, the body will be escorted by a company from the Thomas Wentworth Higginson Post, Sons of Veterans, and by a delegation from the Grand Army. The casket will be draped with Colonel Higginson's old army flag, which was carried by his regiment in the Civil War, and will be borne by six colored soldiers of the Shaw Guard, 6th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia...
Yesterday, at 12.15 o'clock, the funeral services for Professor Norton '46, were held in Appleton Chapel. The casket was borne up the aisle by eight undergraduate pall-bearers. The Rev. E. C. Moore '78 read the burial services, which were brief and simple. There was singing by the choir and the services closed with a hymn by the congregation. The interment was private...