Word: octogenarian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...known throughout the country as an orator and as a writer of Pilgrim history, died very suddenly of heart failure at his home in Plymouth last Tuesday at the age of 86. Mr. Davis is the author of "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth" and "Pilgrim Memories of an Octogenarian." He was vice-president of the Pilgrim Society and president of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth. For many years he has been an active and prominent citizen of Plymouth...
...seems to be the general opinion among Seniors who have the privilege of rooming in Hollis or Stoughton that the obsolete custom of having prolonged bell-ringing at seven A. M. is a nuisance, and that as such it should be discontinued. It is unkind to oblige an octogenarian bell-ringer to be disturbed unnecessarily early every morning, and it is certainly unreasonable to oblige him in turn to disturb all the students of those two dormitories by a noise which has no object and no excuse. Most men in College do the bulk of their work...