Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late the American School at Athens has been engaged in making some highly important excavations in Attica and the surrounding country with great success. Mr. Earle, of Columbia, '86, appointed by the director of the schools to superintend the excavations at Sikyon, has lately discovered a broken Sikyonian statue, representing Dionysius; also several coins of great historic value. Moreover, he discovered an inscription dating back to about...
Some substantial gifts have been made to Williams lately. Among them is the bequest of $50,000 received by the will of the late William Hilton. In addition Judge Dervey of Worcester, has established two scholarships of $3,000 each, and the interest of $1,000 as a prize to the one pronouncing the best oration on commencement...
Williams College will place a memorial tablet in the college cemetery, in memory of its late ex-President, Dr. Mark Hopkins. The tablet will be made of new Westerly granite, and will weigh about six tons. It will consist of a large, highly-supported plate, supported by six engraved columns...
...must keep him in our hearts from our youth up. The days of childhood are days of impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ, the goodness which at first comes by reflection will become instinctive...
...late A. B. Barnes of New York, the book publisher, left $1,000 to the Yale Divinity school...