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...Epes Sargent Dixwell '27 died at his home on Garden street, Cambridge, on Friday afternoon, at the advanced age of ninety-two. While at College his room-mate was Cornelius C. Felton, afterwards president of Harvard, and among his class-mates were Edmund Quincy, former president Stearns of Amherst, and Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1833 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but he soon gave up the law to become head-master of the Boston Latin School. During the fifteen years in which he served in this position, he came in contact with a most remarkable...
...Dixwell left the Latin School and established a private school on Boylston place, where he taught for twenty years. Senator Lodge and Governor Wolcott were among his pupils. He gave up his work as a teacher in 1871, and retired to his home in Cambridge, where he had been living up to the time of his death. Mr. Dixwell was one of Harvard's oldest graduates...
...about five and a half miles, through Garden street, around Fresh Pond, and back by way of Brattle street. For the first few miles the pace was slow, but the break was made at the corner of Huron avenue and Brattle street, about a mile and a quarter from home. O. W. Richardson 1L. finished first, with W. G. Clerk '01, second...
...question for December 11 will be: "Resolved That Admiral Dewey was justified in deeding his house, purchased by the Dewy Home Fun to his wife." Affirmative -- G. W. South, Jr., G. O. Suppis, P. B. Olney. Negative--A. J. Hammerslough, L. P. Hill, J. P. Hogan...
...Samuel May '29 died at his home in Leicester on Friday at the age of eighty-nine. Born in Boston, April 11, 1810, he there received his early education. In 1825 he entered Harvard, graduating in the class with Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Freeman Clarke and Benjamin R. Curtis. He was secretary of his class. In 1833 he graduated from the Divinity School, of which he became senior alumnus in 1898. In 1834, Mr. May was ordained and installed in the Second Congregational Church of Leicester, where he continued to preach up to the time of his death...