Word: grave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...skeletons disclosed were those of 11 men, one woman and four children. Five were in a good state of preservation, the others in various stages of decay. In one grave the bones were so nearly gone as to preserve only the outline in coarse ashes. In another the skull alone remained, in the jaws of which were the well polished teeth. The skeletons were those of men averaging 5 feet 2 inches in height, the tallest being 6 feet 2 inches. The burials were from three to five feet below the surface. The skeletons rested upon hard clay. Around them...
...other day, going to see John Harvard's grave in the old cemetery at Charlestown, I found the inscriptions on the monument almost. completely worn away by the weather. The one on the eastern side was entirely illegible and it was only with the help of favoring shadows that, after many tribulations, I deciphered the words on the western side. The monument was erected by the graduates of 1828 in honor of the founder of their beloved University. Will not the undergraduates of 1891 see to it that the inscriptions are kept in good condition? The expense would be comparatively...
...Harvard was not acquainted with Capt. Smith since at the time of the latter's death in 1631, Harvard was still a student at Cambridge. Smith's name had been for some time one of romantic interest, however, and there was much truth in the epitaph put above his grave-"the grim King has at last conquered one who in his time conquered many kings...
...finished his four years that his education is complete, but if this is so he had better never have come to college. If a man thinks that because he has kept Lent in a certain way, his religious duties are then ended for a year he has committed a grave mistake; for the secular world is not, as he thinks, without the guidance...
...Grave," though its plot excels those of the stories already mentioned, is slightly inferior to them in execution. There is an excess of narrative in the third person, unbroken by the conversation needed to give ease and variety to the story. In other respects it is satisfactory...