Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whereas we recognize a closer tie which bound him to father, mother and other loved ones and which was peremptorily severed in that the familiar face and voice greet them no more; therefore...
...Sargent, Jr., died suddenly on Saturday, in his appartments at 3 Spruce street. Mr. Sargent was a graduate of the Scientific School, and of the Law School, class of 71. He came of an old and noted Boston family. His father, General Sargent, graduated from Harvard in 1843, and is the founder of the Horace Binney Sargent scholarship. Mr. Sargent entered upon the practice of his profession as assistant city solicitor under J. P. Healey, but relinquished his profession about ten years ago. He was State Inspector of Rifle Practice on General Sutton's staff...
...charm and subtlety of the originals. No truer example of this has come to our notice than the Letters of Victor Hugo, done into English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else and not from the author himself...
...will of Professor Harold Whiting, of Cambridge gives $20,000 to the University to establish a fellowship in physics, and to be known as the William Whiting fellowship, in honor of the testator's father. The Regents of the University of California receive $20,000, the income to be used for the benefit of the physical department, and to be known as the Whiting fund...
...sympathy with everything healthy and manly in college life. After graduation he entered the Law School of Boston University and received the degree of LL. B. in 1879. He. was admitted to the bar and entered the law firm of which his father was the senior member. Becoming interested in politics he served as a member of both branches of the Cambridge city government and afterwards as mayor for four years. He was nominated for governor in 1888 and 1889, but was defeated. In 1890 he was elected by a large majority and re-elected...