Word: survivor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this, the fame of the department attracted even the undergraduate, and young men who would not otherwise have studied philosophy at all enrolled for one or more courses just to be in contact with the department's distinguished men. Of the five men mentioned above, Muensterberg was the only survivor. James and Royce are dead, Palmer has retired and Santayana has gone back to his native Europe, where his sympathies always were...
...Jackson does not have to follow Mr. Wood across the Pacific; he finds all the thrill he wants no further west than Coyotte Falls. There is a real Injun there, a survivor of the old literary race fast disappearing--a bad Injun who says "How" and knows the ghost dance song and has a great grey eagle to preside over his passing. Only there is no damsel this time...
...trust will run for 20 years after the decease of the last survivor of a group of 21 designated persons. This time is expected to be about 100 years...
...School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he left the army with the rank of colonel. Colonel Higginson was always prominent in the field of literature, being the last survivor of the early American school of litterateurs of whom Wendell Phillips '31 and Theodore Parker '36 were such notable examples...