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...Necropolis of Ancon, said Mr. Dorsey, stands in the midst of a vast rolling plain. The city itself covers about 200 acres. The first mention we find of the existence of such a place is in a book written in 1753 by an explorer and traveller in South America, in which we see that in the centre of Peru there was a town of about 500 inhabitants called Ancon. In 1748 the name Lancon was printed on a map of Peru made in France. This was probably a corruption of La Ancon. Ever since this time there have been frequent...
...Framingham academy and high school, class of '87. The year 1887-88 he spent at the Phillips. Exeter Academy, entering Harvard in the autumn. Throughout his course at Harvard he took excellent stand, paying especial attention to the classics and to history. At graduation he received honorable mention in Greek and in history, and among the commencement parts was assigned a disquisition. Howe led a thoroughly quiet, studious life at Cambridge and on that account was never prominent in a social way, but he was greatly beloved by his friends, of whom he had many in his class at Exeter...
...claiming consideration as possible winners of the cup, but this year it is Pennsylvania and not Princeton that will make the fight with Harvard and Yale. Experience has shown that predictions concerning the outcome of the individual events cannot be made with any degree of assurance. However, brief mention of the men whose public performances have been worthy of especial notice may be of interest...
...very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston papers and, without exception, they consented to make no mention of the young man's name on the following morning. It was a subordination of business enterprise to humane sentiment highly to be esteemed. Any deed that tends in the least to mitigate the heavy affiction awakens in us all the warmest gratitude. In the name of the University we thank...
Harvard defeated Dartmouth again yesterday afternoon in an interesting game. With the exception of short stop, the team fielded very well, Dickinson and Whittemore deserving special mention for the life which they put into the game. Highlands pitched well and held the Dartmouth men down to four hits, one of which was a scratch. The attendance at the game was by no means what the work of the nine deserves. The score...