Word: mourned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When one of us dies," again says Professor Palmer, "his colleagues mourn, not for the public loss alone, but for their own much more, each sharing with each such bits of remembrance as illustrate the beauty and excellence of the absent friend. In the family journal of Harvard I would record in this fragmentary and intimate way the affection which 34 years have bred in me for Josiah Royce...
...deep and lucid mind we mourn, An eye that on the sun of truth had gazed, Nor ever turned away like others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never...
...undergraduates changes and vacancies in the personnel of the faculty. The recent death of Professor Josiah Royce of the Philosophy Department has created a vacancy which, unlike some, it will be impossible to fill. It is with a feeling of intense sorrow that both professors and students mourn the loss of a scholar whose mind was so constructive, so keen in the search for philosophic and religious truths. During his twenty-four years as a member of the Philosophy Department Professor Royce's idealistic theories gained world-wide fame, particularly for their tolerance of modern science and its discoveries, instead...
...third time in as many years, the University is called upon to mourn the loss of a valued member of the Department of the Classics. Morris Hicky Morgan died yesterday morning at Newport, R. I., after an illness of about two months...