Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sorrowful duty to announce the death of Professor Ernest Young, which occurred in Boston on Friday last. Mr. Young's health had been for some time past a source of anxiety to friends, but nobody was prepared for the sudden and tragical event of Friday. It was not till last week that his condition became at all alarming. At a consultation of physicians held on Thursday, it was found that he was threatened with insanity, and he was ordered to give up all work immediately. The knowledge that he was in a serious condition seems to have greatly deepened...
...Young's work. It is believed that the severe labor bestowed in preparing his lectures on the early constitutional history of France, a course given by him for the first time this year, has much to do with bringing on the mental derangement which resulted in his death...
...Reading which many people have been looking forward to with so much pleasure took place at Sanders Theatre last evening before a large attendance. Colonel Higginson made a few introductory remarks, in the course of which he said: "It was the custom in Ben Jonson's days, upon the death of a writer, for his brethren of the profession to throw their pens into the grave. And to-night we, the friends of him, the anniversary of whose birthday we commemorate, lay down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech, Colonel...
...Sachs, in his lecture last night treated of those vases which relate to the later books of the Iliad. The episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases...
...regret to announce the death of Charles B. Saunderson of the senior class. Mr. Sunderson was taken sick about two weeks ago, but remained in Cambridge until the first part of last week, when he went to his home in Lynn, where he died Wednesday evening. The cause of his death was peritonitis Mr. Saunderson was not universally known in college owing to his quiet life, but to those who were his intimate friends his death will be a severe blow. Although not an athletic man, he took great interest in lacrosse and played at one time on the team...