Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late Samuel E. Fitz bequeathed two-thirds of his residuary estate to Harvard College for the use of the medical school...
...late Boston paper calls attention to the fact that sixty-seven members of the West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity...
...first hounds in. The run was a very good one, running up by the arsenal through Somerville to Spring hill, Tufts, through Middlesex Fells to Andover turnpike, thence back to the powder house near Tufts, where the hounds broke for home. The hounds lost the scent and came in late...
...Collier of the First Church, Hingham, late of the Harvard Divinity School, has declined a call, recently extended him by the First Unitarian Society of Boston (Rev. Rufus Ellis, pastor), to become associate pastor of that church...
...superintendency of the college essays of both classical and scientific students for eight years, as he had had, he could not help noting the power the study of Greek gave in English sentence making ; that, while there are men of letters, like the late Dr. Holland, who have a natural gift of style without Greek culture, it is nevertheless true that, to master English idiom, the average man must be more or less familiar with Greek. Profs. Young, Cameron, Orrks, Winans, Libbey, Hunt and West also spoke...