Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst did not play the Dartmouths at Amherst last Tuesday because the faculty considered it an improper way to spend a day devoted by the government to the commemoration of America's dead soldiers...
...observing Memorial Day, and stranger still would it be if in future years the day is not more fitly observed. Many Harvard men, no doubt, would gladly spend the little time and money required to decorate, once a year, the building which commemorates at once the patriotism of the dead and the generosity of the living. Most Harvard men (especially the faculty) do not think that "the recognition of the dead soldiers of the Civil War of Harvard University ended the day that the hall was dedicated." The dedication of Memorial Hall was but the beginning of Harvard's recognition...
George Henry, third Marquess of Conygham, is dead, aged 57. He was equerry to the Queen and a lieutenant-general in the army...
...thousands of dollars, gladly subscribed by the alumni of the university. It was erected with a purpose - it was intended for a memorial, and it has attained world-wide fame under the name of "Memorial Hall." Yesterday was Memorial Day. The hall and the day are memorials of the dead soldiers of the civil war. One represents the recognition the graduates of a university gave to their brave classmates, to the sons of the same Alma Mater; the other represents the recognition a people give to the valor and the honor of their sons, brothers and fathers. There...
Hermann Julius Theodor Hettner, professor in the University of Jena and a writer on art and literature, is dead...