Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cowles of the Yale University Crew, yesterday had a narrow escape from death...
...death of Ezra Abbott, Harvard loses another of those men who have done most to add to her reputation. The name of Dr. Abbott is probably better known to the outside world than was his figure to the greater number of the undergraduates; yet every student feels a part-ownership in the reflected glory of that name and deep regret at the loss which Harvard shares with world. It is the character of such men no less than their learning that makes their influence a whole some one and in Dr. Abbott was combined a character of the rarest purity...
...College in 1840 he spent five years in teaching in Maine, and then removed to Cambridge where he has since resided. In 1856 he was appointed assistant librarian to Harvard College, and in 1872 he was appointed to the professorship in the Divinity School which he held to his death. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1861 the degree of LL. D. From Yale in 1869, and from Bowdoin in 1878 and the degree of D. D. from Harvard...
...even Harvard's graduates concerning this their first one. I am at a loss to give extracts of my paper, for it is in itself a synoptical biography of the man, being not only his history, but an account of his life-work, his contentions and strange experiences, his death, etc., and all along, running through the statement, is an analysis of his nature, etc,. The paper was prepared, not for reading at the society's rooms, but for publication in a small volume, to which would be added a like biography of his distinguished grandfather, Robert Parker, the father...
...uncle, Orien J. Fullerton, was a physician, a graduate of class of '31, Harvard College. Obliged to work his way through college owing to his father's death, he soon became one of the leading members of his profession, and was State Senator from the Dover district, from 1851 to 1855. He died in 1862 from injuries received in a railroad accident about one year previous. My uncle, Samuel S. Fullerton, died in 1832, while a junior at Yale college. And my uncle Francis S. Fullerton, is now engaged in the flour business in Wilma, Minnesota...