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...Moslems have a belief similar to our Second Adventism. There were twelve Imams, the last of whom was expected to restore the Caliphate to the family of the prophet, and to bring universal peace. The last Imam, however, was born and died but things went on as before. His adherents then said that he was not really dead, but would return again and complete his work as El Mahdi, "he who is guided by God." Many have taken this title, but all have eventually met with defeat and death. The present Mahdi owes his success to a series of fortunate...
William Winthrop Allen of Medfield is the oldest living graduate of Harvard College, as has been ascertained since the death recently of Dr. William Goddard of the class of 1815. Mr. Allen was born at Medfield in 1794, and his only surviving classmates in the class of 1817 are George Bancroft, who was born in Worcester, October 6, 1800, and Samuel Sewall, the well-known lawyer, who was born...
...death of Dr. William Goddard in this city on Sunday last, recalls the fact that he was the oldest living graduate of Harvard College, and the oldest graduate of the Medical School. Dr. Goddard, who was the only survivor of his class, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April...
...house was standing when on April 19, 1775, Lord Percy marched up North Avenue with reinforcements for Pitcairn who was retreating from Concord. Within a stone's throw stood the Holmes house in which the poet was born and which was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Law School building. The doors and window sashes are the same that were originally put into the house, and in the transom over the door are five lights of old English bull's eye glass...
...fifty-eight 2's, and one hundred and fifty-eight singles-the last item proving that the bowling was not so very weak. This score has only been exceeded four times, and then in minor matches with only eleven in the field. Dr. Grace was born July 18, 1848, near Bristol, Eng., and has been playing in first-class matches since...