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Last night at about eight o'clock, Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar died of heart failure at his home in Concord, Mass., at the age of 78 years and 11 months. He had been seriously ill for some seven weeks, but his uncommonly strong constitution kept him alive longer than was expected. Since Wednesday noon he had been unconscious, but yesterday afternoon he re-gained consciousness for a short time. There were four members of his family present at his death...
...Judge Hoar was born in Concord, Mass., on Feb. 4, 1816. At the age of fifteen he entered Harvard, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1835. From the college he went to the Law School, where four years later he took the degree of LL. B. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts and began the active practice of law. He rose rapidly in his profession and in 1859 was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The degree of LL.D. was afterwards twice awarded him, - first by Williams in 1861 and again...
...secretary of the University, which was left vacant by the death of Mr. Bolles, has not yet been filled. Of the governing boards, the Fellows have lost through death Mr. John Quincy Adams, and have appointed as members of the board, Major Henry L. Higginson, and Mr. Samuel Hoar. The Overseers who have been elected to hold office until 1900 are Augustus Hemenway, Charles Beaman, Samuel A. Green, William Lawrence, D. D., and Francis C. Lowell. In the list of University Preachers, J. Estlin Carpenter and Phillip S. Moxom have been appointed to succeed Washington Gladden, D. D., and Leighton...
...report of Mrs. Agassiz, the president, gives a brief resume of the work accomplished since the founding of the college, and of the aims and purposes of the institution. In closing her report she speaks of a scholarship, recently endowed, in the name of Joanna Hoar, probably by one of her descendants, though the gift was anonymous...
...increase in gifts to the institution since it became a college and received a distinctive name is marked. Besides the gift in memory of Joanna Hoar, already mentioned, the college has also received funds to establish the Agnes Irwin Scholarship, contributed by about seven hundred women who had been under the care of the present Dean of Radcliffe, during her life in Philadelphia. Another scholarship has been founded by Mrs. Josiah M. Fiske, of New York City, in memory of her husband. Ninety-seven thousand dollars have been received by the treasurer in cash and securities from the estate...