Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be difficult at the University to become accustomed to the loss of Robert Bacon. We mourn him not only as a former editor and a former Harvard man, but also as a great American who has passed from among...
...story is of an English father and mother whose son has been killed at the front. All the mother's actions outwardly portray her loss, she is obsessed with the idea of mourning and each night gathers her family together believing that they can receive spiritual messages from the son. The father--George Arliss--however, goes about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead...
...great astronomical lights, and deans of science.' Plaskett, Director of the new Canadian Observatory, at Victoria, 'The news came to Mrs. Plaskett and me as a great shock and deep personal loss. The loss to Astronomy and Science is inestimable, but all his friends will chiefly mourn him for his lovable personal qualities...
...measurement of satellites and stars. When we remember that astronomy and physics are the oldest branches of science known to civilization, we catch a glimpse of the vast fields for exploration before us. Professor Pickering with a few other Harvard men of his generation whom we have come to mourn, have shown us the courses to be followed. Our "Vale" is said with the full appreciation of the trust he has left...
...attack of influenza was followed by pneumonia, and he died at the Still man Infirmary on January 24. We mourn him as a trusted friend