Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Freshman Club held on Friday evening, April 11th, 1884, it was voted that Messrs. J. L. Snelling, G. A. Morrison, and F. A. Jones be a committee to draw up resolutions upon the death of their classmate, Ruluff Sterling Choate...
Resolved, That in his loss they mourn the death of one of their most promising members whose mental attainments and social gifts gave him a high place in the admiration and aflectior of his class-mates, which time and longer friendship could only have strengthened and confirmed...
...spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel as the sportsman. He takes every precaution to kill his victim with the least pain. Indeed, so painless are his methods that the death of an animal so killed is much pleasanter than that of the animal exposed to the vicissitudes of nature. In the natural state the weak are exposed to the attacks of the strong, and often are subjected to torment and mutilation before being put to death...
...York. He was present at college until the end of the term, when he left Cambridge to join his family. He was the eldest son of Mr. Joseph H. Choate, president of the Harvard alumni. Ruluff Choate was widely known in his class and the news of his death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends...
...above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that in this age men begin to think less about death...