Word: brother
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work immediately. The knowledge that he was in a serious condition seems to have greatly deepened the depression under which he was already laboring, and to have hastened his malady to an acute stage. On Friday morning he left his house in Cambridge, and, going to his brother's room in Boston, there put an end to his own life...
...Sachs, in his lecture last night treated of those vases which relate to the later books of the Iliad. The episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases...
Only one specimen of the hand writing of John Harvard has been known to be in existence, and is his signature to a document deposited in the Registry of the English University of Cambridge. Another document containing his signature and that of his brother Thomas has just been brought to light. Of this a correspondent of the Athenaeum writes...
...small portion of your space for the purpose of recording the discovery of an autograph of John Harvard, and also of his brother Thomas, of whom I believe no other writing has been found. The brothers, as is known, held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London. Communications were, therefore, opened with the present authorities of the Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine...
...share of her athletes and her prominent literary men. Cranston, the captain of this year's foot-ball team, wishes to come to Harvard and will doubtless do so. The other foot-ball men who will enter with '92 are Harding, the best quarter-back Exeter has ever had, brother of Harding, quarter back on the 'Varsity this fall; Vail, lett guard, and the strongest man in the Academy; Brooks, end-rush for two years, and D. B. Dufileld, substitute full back. T. W. LaMonte and S. P. Duffield, editors of the Exonian and Literary Monthly, and Jones, business editor...