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...announcement of the death of Professor JOHN RICHARD DENNETT will not be a surprise to his friends, but even those who have watched the growth of the seeds of consumption must be shocked at the termination of such a life...
Professor Dennett graduated at Harvard in 1862, and his life from thence to the time of his death has been devoted to the improvement of the literature of the country. When, in 1869, Professor Child was called upon to select for an assistant the man whom he considered best fitted for the place, he named John Richard Dennett. He filled the position of Assistant Professor of Rhetoric here for two years, and during that time he won the respect of the Faculty and the esteem of the students. It was to the great regret of all undergraduates that he resigned...
...death of Mr. Hastings is peculiarly distressing, not only from the high possibilities that seemed to be before him in life, but from the startling suddenness of his death, and from the aberration of mind that was the cause...
Every phase in the character of Mr. Hastings was marked by the strong self-reliance and firmness of purpose 'so essential to a useful life. This characteristic produced in his studies a faithfulness to work that proceeded not so much from ambition to excel, as from an earnest determination to spare no pains in fitting himself to hold an honorable position among his fellow-men. In his social relations he was loved as a friend and respected for his manly qualities. Generous, open-hearted, thoroughly independent, yet always careful to respect the feelings of others, he was incapable of degrading...
...evidently more carefully written and more free than his poems of the same nature which used to appear in the Advocate. Mr. Hale also prints this month the address which he delivered in the summer to the graduating classes of Vassar and Cornell. It is called a "Life of Letters," and is well worth reading...