Word: newport
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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William Bowdoin Hyler, of Thomaston, Maine, left Newport News, Virginia, on the fifteenth of last October. The vessel was bound for Barcelona, Spain, and has never been sighted or heard from since it left port. Hyler was a student in the Medical School the last two years. He was substitute pitcher on the 'varsity nine in the spring of 1893 and went on the trip that year. Before he entered the Medical School he attended Tufts College where he pitched on the nine. He was a good wrestler and a well-known member of the Boston Athletic Association...
...famous class of 1829 of Harvard, there are since the death of Holmes only four surviving members: Dr. Edward L. Cunningham of Newport, R. I., Rev. Samuel May (the class secretary) of Leicester, Rev. Samuel F. Smith of Newton (the author of "America"), and Chas, S. Storrow of Boston...
Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, LL.D., Erving Professor of Mineralogy and Chemistry, died at his summer residence in Newport, R. I., September 3, after an illness of some length...
...Snow was the author of a number of valuable books on international law, and was one of the leading authorities on that subject in the country. Only recently he completed a course of lectures at the naval college at Newport...
...Newport has been abandoned, as suitable accommodations could not be secured. The men will be taken to Quogue, L. I. instead. The backs will report for work early in August. The line men will go in training September 1. All of last year's team, with the exceptions of King and Blake, will be back. Phil King will be with the team until after Thanksgiving...