Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late Prof. Henry Smith, of Oxford, was so unwilling to inflict pain that he even hesitated to find fault with lazy and stupid pupils. On one occasion two undergraduates of his college brought him their exercises for correction. To the first he merely said, "Thank you, Mr. A., that is very nice, very nice indeed." To the second when he anxiously inquired as to the possible fate of his companion in an approaching examination, "O your friend Mr. A.? He, too, will be ploughed...
...unveiling of a tablet in honor of the late Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, in the house in which he resided when in Rome, will take place March...
...brought with him, and showed the position of the armies. He explained the famous "joint order" of Pope's to McDowell and Porter, and the way in which Porter misunderstood it, and hence did not move. After some correspondence Gen. Porter attempted to move, but it was too late. The lecturer then took up Pope's charge that Porter wilfully kept his troops out of the contest, although he knew that his force was needed. This was founded entirely on wrong assumptions, viz., that Porter had advanced as far as the Gap, and that a terrific battle took place...
...calculated that the equal shares left to Harvard, Yale, Williams and Amherst by the will of the late Henry T. Morgan of New York will each amount to between...
There was a slight blaze in College House late Saturday night, which probably originated in a barrel of rubbish in the basement. It soon filled the halls with smoke, but was extinguished by a member of '84. Another warning...