Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appeal of the Longfellow Memorial Association for aid in erecting a suitable memorial to the dead poet in Cambridge, should meet with generous support from Harvard men. It is peculiarly fitting that they should do their full share in promoting the scheme. The memorial proposed is to be erected in Cambridge; the project is backed by the names of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates and professors, and finally Mr. Longfellow was at one time formally connected with the college as a teacher. We have no doubt the appeal will meet with a ready response from Harvard's present...
Among all the journals now dead and gone, but once published by Harvard students, the Collegian retains to this day a certain posthumous fame because of the honor it had of first publishing some of Dr. Holmes' most celebrated verses. Dr. Holmes was not the editor of the Collegian as has been stated, however, for the graduated from college in 1829, and the Collegian was not started until 1830. But he was a frequent contributor to the paper, and the reader, in running over its table of contents, meets many familiar titles from his pen. "To My Companions," "The Dorchester...
Secretary Chandler has received a telegram from Melville stating that he has found De Long and party dead...
...News says very condescendingly that "Old Greek plays may be well enough in their place when supported by all the dead-tongue devotees in the country; but," it continues, "for one man, in the midst of the pressing work of the junior year, to write up an entirely original play [Penikeese], such as shall satisfy an audience far harder to please than any Greece ever saw, is not without its merit...
...Hurlburt appeared before the foreign affairs committee yesterday, and defended the record of his dead brother, the late minister to Peru. Ex-Secretary Blaine will be examined Monday...