Word: burial
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps one of the most curious accounts in the book is a long article on the "Burial of Mr. Football" in the year 1861, when the annual Sophomore-Freshman rush was forbidden by the Faculty. An excerpt from the account is printed: "Dearly Beloved: We have met together upon this mournful occasion to perform the sad office over one whose long and honored life was put to an end in a sudden and violent manner. Last year at this very time, this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements...
...William Gilson Farlow, '66, professor of cryptogamic botany at te University died on Tuesday at his home on Quincy street, after an illness of several weeks duration. The funeral services will be conducted in Appleton Chapel at 12 o'clock today, and the burial will be at Newton...
...details of Captain Guynemer's funeral were announced. This most brilliant of French aviators was finally brought down behind German lines, but his life and record had been so glorious that even Germans had to honor him in death. They invited his companions in service to attend his burial and they gave them a safe-conduct across their lines. On that day a group of French planes flying close to the ground went over German lines and landed at a small village, the whole populace of which was showing its respect for the French hero. After the exercises the French...
Hichcock was 23 years old. He had been five years away from his home in Hawaii where he expected to return next spring. The funeral will take place tomorrow and the body will be taken back to Hawaii for burial...
...pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...