Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement of the sudden death of Thomas Parker Sanborn, (A. B., 1886), will be sad news for the large number of friends who knew him during his college life, and the class of Eight-six will feel that it has indeed lost a member whose earlier years gave promise of a brilliant future...
...death last November of Mr. William W. Allen of the class of 1817, Mr. Samuel Edmund Sewall of the same class became senior alumnus. On the 20th of December, however, Mr. Sewall also passed away and left this position to the only surviving member of the class of 1817, Hon. George Bancroft, the well known American historian, who was born October 3, 1801. Mr. Bancroft, although first in college seniority, is yet younger than three living members of the class of 1818-Mr. Sidney Bartlett, born in February, 1799; Rev. Francis A. Farley, born in June...
Within the last week Columbia has lost two of its most prominent professors by death-the one, Professor John C. Dalton, under whom the College of Physicians and Surgeons has reached the period of its greatest usefulness; the other Dr. Herman Schmidt, for thirty-three years professor of German language and literature...
...divided into nine periods, corresponding to the historical periods of the city. They are: 1, from the earliest times to Solon (594 B. C.); 2, to the end of the Persian wars (479 B. C.); 3, to the archonship of Euclides (403 B. C.); 4, to the death of Alexander (323 B. C.); 5, to the extinction of the Archaean League (146 B. C.); 6, the Roman and early Byzantine periods to the breaking up of the schools of philosophy in Athens (529 A. D.); 7, from the breaking up of the schools to the coming of the Franks after...
...Hunting at Rossness" by Mr. Bates is a tragic tale of the days of the clans in Scotland. The narrative is smooth and effective, though it lacks gracefulness of language. The interest of the story increases rapidly to the death of the Earl...