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...Matthew Arnold right in saying that Gray's poetry was "stunted in quality by reason of the age wherein he lived...
...Christ's life could not be destroyed by physical forces because it was ethical and spiritual. If we love Christ as a martyr we should lay down our lives for the brethren. The call to duty today is no less real than in the days of the martyrs. The age craves heroes - heroes in the professions, in the church, in business, - heroes to face the great social, economic, and industrial problems...
Last night at about eight o'clock, Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar died of heart failure at his home in Concord, Mass., at the age of 78 years and 11 months. He had been seriously ill for some seven weeks, but his uncommonly strong constitution kept him alive longer than was expected. Since Wednesday noon he had been unconscious, but yesterday afternoon he re-gained consciousness for a short time. There were four members of his family present at his death...
Judge Hoar was born in Concord, Mass., on Feb. 4, 1816. At the age of fifteen he entered Harvard, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1835. From the college he went to the Law School, where four years later he took the degree of LL. B. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts and began the active practice of law. He rose rapidly in his profession and in 1859 was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The degree of LL.D. was afterwards twice awarded him, - first by Williams in 1861 and again...
Herbert Hayes Norton, of the class of 1892, died at his home, Winona, Minn., December 11, 1894. His illness was very short and his death unexpected. He was the son of Matthew G. Norton and was born at Winona, August 15, 1868. At the age of eighteen he entered Hamline University, where he remained two years. The next year and a half he spent abroad, travelling and studying. Then returning, in the fall of 1889, he joined the junior class at Hamline. He completed this year and in the following autumn came to Harvard, where he was admitted...