Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the first-year class of the Harvard Law School, having learned with regret of the death of our late fellow-student, Elliot Perkins Hood, unanimously express our earnest sorrow at the loss of one whom we had earned not only to admire for his intellectual ability, but to like and respect for his manly character and courteous bearing. We also extend our sincere and regretful sympathy to his relatives and friends in their sad bereavement...
...late Henry Ward Beecher was graduated from Amherst from the class...
...Harvard is at a great disadvantage in base-ball - first, owing to the late coming of spring here, when compared with the country near New York, and, secondly, in the edict of the faculty forbidding contests with professionals, an advantage which our friends in the College League take good care to make the most of. To counterbalance these fundamental drawbacks, Harvard has a great work before her, and if she gains her aim now, higher honor will be awarded her energy and perseverance...
...effect, and a British School now stands on the slope of Lycabettus on land adjoining that of the American School. But the words of Bishop Lightfoot, with but slight change, may now appeal powerfully to our own national pride and honor. Above all things, we must not, at this late day, allow ourselves to play the part of the sleeping hare in this friendly race...
...letter from Wallace, who was then in the Greek Archipelago. Wallace told him (accompanying this letter was an essay, which Wallace told him contained a new theory on which he [Wallace] wrote) that as the essay was one which contained a new theory on which his thoughts had of late been running, he asked Darwin's advice as to its publication. Mr. Wallace confessed that he had been led to his opinions by a study of Malthus' "Doctrine of Population." Curiously enough, this theory was exactly the train of thought which Darwin himself had just been considering. He immediately took...