Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There will be a meeting of the Senior class tonight at 7 o'clock in Upper Massachusetts, to take action on the death of Gilbert Haven Luce...
...quite without coherence, and the dialect itself does not seem well sustained. Among the contributions in verse "Among the Cedars," by R. P., deserves favorable mention. "The Ballad of the Trenton," by L. W., is a spirited tribute to the officers and men who "met their death so merrily" at the naval disaster of Samoa in 1889. To be sure the poem loses some force from the fact that in reality the "Trenton" sank in shoal water, so that the "merry" death scene is not historical; but there is much virtue in poetic license. The number also includes "A Song...
President Eliot's Report begins, as usual, by reviewing the services of those officers whose connection with the University has been severed during the year under review by death or resignation. The deaths mentioned are those of Edward William Hooper, Overseer and late Treasurer, John Fiske, Overseer, and Charles Carroll Everett, Bussey Professor of Theology and Dean of the Divinity School. The resignations recorded are those of Christopher Columbus Langdell, Dane Professor of Law, Joseph Henry Thayer, Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, William Watson Goodwin, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Secretary of the Board...
...whole French people were therefore denounced as degenerates. Many good Americans (even the Boston school board, I am told) threatened to boycott the Exposition. In South Africa today the mismanagement and indifference of the British government are responsible not merely for one man's misfortune, but for the death of several thousand women and children every month and for an incalculable measure of suffering...
...indifference, has been continued. The mortality in the British concentration camps during the last seven months according to official British reports outclasses anything of the sort ever reported in Cuba. During three months more than 15,000 of the women and children so confined have succumbed. This means a death rate of over 2 per cent per month,--or over 25 per cent per year. In other words, the present policy if maintained would obliterate the entire Boer population in less than four years. Even in December when it was claimed that great improvements had been made in the arrangements...