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Miss Amelie Rives, the author of "The Quick or the Dead" and other works that recently have attracted attention in the literary world, was married at Charlottesville, Va., recently. The groom is Mr. John Armstrong Chanler of New York, a wealthy grandson of John Jacob Astor...
...delivered a very earnest discourse in the chapel last evening from the text found in the 32nd chapser of Genesis: "For with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies." The speaker described the advancement that had taken place in the fortunes of Jacob in the twenty years of his absence from home. He had become very wealthy and had grown in experience and in wisdom. This incident from the Old Testament leads to the thought of the attributes of material and moral progress in the lives of Christians to-day. We cannot choose...
...Burke Marston. Mr. George Parsons Lathrop gave "October Snow" and "Keenan's Charge." Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly followed with a number of epigrams, which were enthusiastically received; also the poems "Ensign Epps" and "In Bohemia." Mr. Charles Follen Adams amused his audience greatly by his recital of "Little Jacob Straus." The last reader who rendered original selections was Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, to whose untiring exertions the entertainment of the evening was entirely due. Her most applauded poem was a "Quatrain on the Years." The programme was truly a literary feast, and it was thoroughly enjoyed by every...
Shortly after twelve o'clock last Saturday night, Henry Jacob Powell, of the sophomore class, was found dead in his bedroom, No. 5 Holworthy. The door leading from his study to his bedroom was closed, and when opened a quantity of coal gas rushed out which had been escaping from a gas jet evidently purposely turned on. On the desk in his study was found a medicine chest, apparently new, from which the phial of nuxvomica was missing. This was immediately found in the center of the room entirely emptied of its contents. There was also on the desk...
...trustees of Boston University gave their annual reception to the graduating classes and alumni of the university at Jacob Sleeper Hall Wednesday evening. Between 600 and 700 persons were present...