Word: late
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University is to receive from the estate of the late Francis Porter Fisher, A.B. 1848, a bequest of $5,000 "to endow a scholarship to be named 'the George Fisher and Elizabeth Huntington Fisher Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother...
Just why this condition of affairs was allowed to exist will cause no one undue loss of sleep at this late hour. The presidential campaign is in full sway and it is high time that all good Republicans in our midst were banded together in an effective organization to promote the interests of their party's candidate. The meeting called for Monday night is for that purpose...
...Library has received from the parents and from a number of friends of the late Arthur S. Dixey, A. B. 1902, the sum of $1,500, to be spent for books as a memorial to Mr. Dixey in the College Library. It is required that the sum shall be spent within five years, and that the books bought shall be French works of or about literature, but that current fiction and drama and philological works shall be excluded. A number of rare and early editions of French authors have already been bought with the gift, and the balance will...
...pamphlets bear the autograph of William Adams, who graduated from the College in 1671, and was afterwards settled in Dedham, where he died in 1685. An inscription on the pamphlet, "God's Terrible Voice in the City of London, wherein you have the Narration of the Two late dreadful Judgements of Plague and Fire inflicted by the Lord upon that City," shows that it was bought of a printer. Samuel Green, February 29, 1667, at which time Adams was a Freshman in College. The volume was bound in its present form by William Adams's son, Eliphalet Adams...
...Mansfield was out, Leonard to Harding. Harvard then proceeded to tie the score by Leonard's brilliant work. After waiting for a base on balls, he ran down to second, starting just as the catcher was throwing the ball to the pitcher. Mansfield's throw to second was too late, as Leonard made a neat slide. McCall then bunted, putting Leonard on third, but getting out himself. Harvey hit a short fly to right field, and Leonard ran home as soon as it was caught, and was safe, as the throw was a little wide...