Word: grave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAUEN, CONN., Oct. 1.- The members of the Ivy Committee of Yale's class of '96, have made public what will undoubtedly prove a happy solution of the trouble engendered by the planting of the slip of ivy from the grave of Robert Lee on the Yale campus and its subsequent theft during the summer...
...members of the Ivy Committee, have been in correspondence over the theft of the ivy since it became known and have decided to plant another of the several slips from General Lee's grave which were originally sent and also on a proposition of Wallace Bruce '67, a slip from the grave of Theodore Winthrop. the poet and writer, who was one of the first Yale officers to meet death in the Union army. The planting of the ivies will be made a notable event and the plan of having Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, deliver the oration...
...Winchester Donald, of Boston, preached his last sermon as University preacher in Appleton Chapel last evening, choosing as his text John, xii-17: "The people therefore that was with him when he raised Lazarus out of his grave bear record...
...latter dignitary has many schemes of his own which he puts into execution at the expense of the poor Alcayde, but not without involving himself in serious complications. The reckless projects of a wandering gypsy are accountable for a general misunderstanding on the part of all and cause grave difficulties before matters are finally straightened out. Spanish peasants, gypsies and Moors give the action a picturesque surrounding...
...returned to Athens and established his Lyceum. The popular tradition that he taught while walking, which has given the name of peripatetic to his school, is probably wrong. The name probably arose from the shady walks of the grave where he taught. After the death of Alexander he went to Chalcis and there died...