Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oldest lawyer living and still pleading at the bar is Mr. Sidney Bartlett, a graduate of Harvard College. He is now past his ninetieth year, and lately argued a case with ability and success...
...university suffered severely the past year by the deaths of Asa Gray, professor of botany and a man of worldwide reputation; of Earnest Young, recently appointed professor of history, and of Robert Dickson Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board of overseers...
...summer course of the Botanical Department is well supplying a longfelt need, and the new quarters of this department will render it even more efficient. Owing to the delay of the Park Commissioners in building roads, the Arnold Arboretum was delayed the past summer in its work of planting trees...
During the past year the Observatory has been very active, and has had particular success in its photometric and photographic work. The President emphasizes the need of a fire-proof building to contain the unpublished records of observations and the library...
...within two years, the entire work making six volumes with about 6,500 pages. For seven years the labor on this important work has gone forward under the direction of Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale, who has been the editor in chief of the enterprise, and for the past two years the printers have been engaged in typesetting in order that the actual time of publication might not extend over too long a period...