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Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
Down from Northumbria came last week a duke, like the dukes of old, to trouble the Parliament at London. He purchased the Morning Post, oldest of existing London daily papers...
...departure in collegiate building design has been made by the adoption of Massachusetts Hall, the oldest college structure in America, as the keynote of the architecture. This famous old building has just been the scene of a fire, and press dispatches at the time united in calling it "the most beautiful college building in America...
...brick with white trim, and cornices and gables similar to the original Harvard buildings, of which the most, famous is Massachusetts Hall. They will, of course, be of first-class fire proof construction which, unfortunately, many of the older buildings are not, as the recent fire in the oldest of them has proved...
...oldest living inhabitant of the Yard" according to his own characterization, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Associate Professor of English in the University, and famed throughout the country for his readings, celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday yesterday in 15 Hollis--the dormitory of which he is become such an integral part...