Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Whatever may be said of Harvard's tendency to neglect study for the encouragement of athletics, her system of deturs, prizes, scholarships and final honors has by stimulation to overwork caused the death of many a promising student. I was graduated from Harvard nine years ago, and know whereof I speak. The sudden insanity of one of the most promising of recent graduates recalls painful memories of that forcing system which has so long been in vogue at my own university. The leader of my class shortly after entering upon his sophomore work died of brain fever. The brightest light...
...endowment fund of Harvard College will receive a large addition by the will of the late J. Sumner Wheeler of Framingham, Mass. Mr. Wheeler graduated at Harvard in the class of 1826, and at the time of his death was president of the Framingham National Bank. The amount of the bequest will be $25,000 if the entire estate amounts to $250,000, and $50,000 if the whole estate is $300,000. The use of the income is not restricted by the will, but is left to the discretion of the president and fellows, though by a codicil added...
Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to his relatives in their affliction, and especially to the father and mother, to whom it was denied to be present at the death of an only...
...late Mrs. Colton, wife of Joseph Colton of New Haven, made a bequest of $40,000 to the Yale Divinity School. Her will provides that at her husband's death the bulk of her property shall go to Yale. The divinity school will also receive, under the will of Mrs. Catherine Jorman, real estate worth about $10,000 after the termination of a life interest...
Chauncey M. Depew has been named to fill the vacancy in the Yale Corporation, caused by Chief Justice Waite's death...