Word: death
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Munro '81, a former demonstrator and lecturer at the Harvard Medical School, died at his home, 173 Beacon street, late Tuesday night. The recurrence of a cancer was the cause of his death...
Francis Hardon Burr '09, of Chestnut Hill, died in the Des Brisay hospital yesterday morning at 5.30 o'clock. He was taken ill with typhoid fever on October 3, and although he rallied several times, the disease was the direct cause of his death...
...death of Francis Hardon Burr is a deep loss not only to those who had the opportunity to be his friends but also to all Harvard men. In him a real leader of men is lost and one who when he lived was an unsurpassed example of that manhood which most nearly approaches the Harvard ideal...
...those who witnessed the birth and death of the first Student Council, the superiority of the new organization is apparent. Nevertheless the new body although more representative than the old, will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre...
While unusually successful as a teacher, Professor James's greatest enjoyment and influence came from his writings. For ten years before his death he taught either not at all or but a single course, and in 1907 he resigned his professorship in order to devote to writing whatever strength his ever weakening heart allowed. Throughout his academic career, with characteristic courage, he put out a series of papers filled with large learning, aggressive originality, popular sympathy, and delightful language. Through continual practice he had made himself the master of a style which so fascinated the reader by its clearness...