Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co. have just published "The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber," edited by Thomas Sergeant Perry, late instructor in English, and lecturer in English literature at Harvard. Lieber's life was an eventful one. Having recovered from wounds received at Waterloo, and taken part in the effort to free Greece from Turkish rule, Lieber was forced by political persecutions in Germany to leave the Fatherland. After vainly struggling to earn a living in England, he came to this country in 1827, and settled in Boston as director of a gymnasium and swimming school. Later he went...
...Fielding Lowery, late postmaster of Dayton, Ohio, committed suicide yesterday by cutting the carotid artery. The cause of his action was inability to meet a deficiency of $4,324 in his accounts with the post-office department...
...have of late noticed, especially among freshmen, a tendency to come into morning prayers after the exercises have begun. We wish to inform freshmen, and remind all others, that according to a regulation of the faculty tardiness counts just the same as a cut; consequently the monitors have no right to mark present a man who comes in late. But whether or not a man saves a cut by so doing, the custom is a disagreeable one, to say the least. Within the last two weeks the exercises have been seriously interrupted half a dozen times...
...catalogue of the Lee MSS., presented to the library by the late J. W. Harris, is given in this number. It consists principally of very valuable documents relating to colonial and early American history. A part catalogue of the maps, in which the library is so rich, is also given. The list of American authors in geology and paleontology, in which the names of many Harvard men appear, is concluded...
...HAVEN, Nov. 5. The whole college has been saddened of late by the death of Mr. Andrews of the senior class. While gunning at a point near New Haven his gun was accidentally discharged, killing him almost instantly. Death occurs so infrequently among us that it is very startling when it comes...