Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action by the drawee of a bill of exchange to recover money paid the payee in ignorance of the death and insolvency of the drawer...
...history in some form, biblical or classical, may have been introduced into the curriculum of Yale College in its earliest years; but the first formal recognition of the subject was "the appointment of President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath...
...range of reading on graduation than he had. He entered the Law School and began to practice law in Boston, working also on law books and writing more or less on social subjects. His future was full of the promise of happiness and usefulness, and his early and unexpected death, in April of 1886, cut short a earner that would have brought honor to himself and to the University that trained him. He always retained a keen interest in the University, and especially in the departments that touched philosophical and social subjects. The gift in his memory of the money...
...describe the work of the earlier representatives of the historical department at Harvard rather than the courses given by the present generation of teachers. Justice to contemporaries requires at least a brief review of the present condition of the work which, since the retirement of Professor Torrey and the death of his successor, Professor Gurney, in 1886, is left entirely in the hands of younger Harvard. Into better or worthier hands this could not have fallen. For years some of the young professors have been in training for their present responsibilities. Indeed, for a long time before the recent transition...
...contents. There was also on the desk an encyclopedia opened at the letter H, and on the top of the page was written "I think I must be crazy." These were the only words which could be found having a direct bearing on the cause of his death. The young man's parents, who live in New York, were at once notified of their son's suicide...