Word: mr
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mr. Charles Amory 32 M., died yesterday morning at his home in Dorchester, at the age of eighty-four. He was born in Boston and prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. For many years he was engaged in the manufacturing business and was interested in many of the large mills of New England, but retired from business some years ago. For many years Mr. Amory lived in the house now occupied by the Puritan Club, which he had built for himself, but later he moved to Cambridge and finally to Dorchester...
...last of Mr. Copeland's lectures on Johnson and his friends was given yesterday on Richard Brinsley Sheridan. At first sight Sheridan may not seem to belong to the group, as he was younger, but he was really a member of the club...
...Mr. Copeland gave a biographical sketch of Sheridan, and read Macaulay's famous description of the scene of the trial of Warren Hastings when Sheridan made one of the most brilliant speeches ever made in English, but the body of the lecture was on his qualities as a play-wright. He was characterized as possessing singular dramatic talent and shining wit, but as lacking the imagination and humanity of Goldsmith...
...annual dinner of the Harvard Club which will be held at Delmonico's on Monday evening, February 21, Mr. James C. Carter '50, will preside. Among those who have already accepted invitations to speak are President Eliot, Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, Rev. Dr. Minot J. Savage, Mr. Elihu Root, Rev. Dr. Gottheil and Mr. Franklin Bartlett...
...Lake, N. Y. Although threatened with consumption it was not known that the disease had so far advanced as to make his end near. He himself was planing his return to Cambridge from the Adirondacks, whither he had gone for a change of air when the fatal turn came. Mr. Hicks's mother who had gone to accompany him back was present and the many new friends he had made while there were ready with sympathy and help...