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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the senior class wish to express the deep regret which the sudden death of Edward Fox Fessenden has caused us. We know that in him we are deprived of one whom we had learned to admire and love, both for his intellectual attainments as well as for his cheerful companionship...
...truth can be drawn from literature. Byron refused to bow to the moral order. He tried to reign supreme in the kingdom of the poetry of pleasure. The world has begun to pass him by. Milton faithfully devoted himself to the service of his country. He would write to express the truth. Ten dollars was the immediate reward of "Paradise Lost," but his present lasting glory has been...
...scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that we express the true feelings of every man who has had any intercourse with either Professor Dyer or Professor Croswell when we say that their departure...
...members of the first-year class of the Harvard Law School, having learned with regret of the death of our late fellow-student, Elliot Perkins Hood, unanimously express our earnest sorrow at the loss of one whom we had earned not only to admire for his intellectual ability, but to like and respect for his manly character and courteous bearing. We also extend our sincere and regretful sympathy to his relatives and friends in their sad bereavement...
Before leaving the number we wish to express our pleasure from reading the editorials. They are well written, manly and fair-minded. We would only question the judgment in the choice of champions among the New York journals...