Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...autopsy held yesterday it was ascertained that heart disease was the cause of Mr. Hyatt's death...
...Robert E. Speer's address in the Union yesterday evening was a plea for ignorance of all uncleanness. The proverb that "knowledge is power," he said, is only half true. Some knowledge is indeed a source of power, but some is a source of weakness and death, or worse. And of those things of which knowledge may be worse than death, a man should have the courage and the will to remain absolutely ignorant...
...September 8, 1836, was held the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the College. It was during one of the ceremonies of that occasion that Fair Harvard was first sung. In 1865 a solemn funeral procession on the occasion of the death of Lincoln, formed before old Gore Hall, passed by Boylston and Grays to the present Unitarian Church, where the most solemn services were held, in which Phillips Brooks made a prayer of remarkable power and passion. On January 26, 1893, with the snow deep on the ground, but with the whole University, officers, students and servants standing...
...Greenough had a genius for friendship, and few men have had so many friends. He was the most entertaining of companions, and the warmth and openness of his nature attached to him those whom the charm of his intense and vivacious personality had attracted. His death has deprived the University of an eminent scholar and an indefatigable teacher, and his colleagues in this Faculty of an associate whom they regarded with sincere affection...
...William Belden Noble lectures were to have been given this fall by Dr. Purver of Princeton, but owing to his death they have been given up altogether for this year...