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W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, left yesterday for West Point, where he will attend the funeral of Cadet Richard Brinsley Sheridan this afternoon. The services will be held in the chapel of the Military Academy and interment will be in the Academy graveyard, where many famous soldiers and...
J. M. Cates, director of athletics at Yale, Captain A. J. Booth, and Coach Stevens will represent Yale at the funeral. A memorial service will be held in the Yale chapel this morning.
There were articles on funeral prices, cut-rate practices, arrangement of the casket display room so that the prospect will not always select the cheap ones. Only once was the delicate (to the undertaker) subject of cremation mentioned; thus:
"The greatest objection to cremation is the usurpation of the funeral directors' rights by the crematory people. Though they have stoutly maintained that a funeral director cannot profitably own his own retorts, this is not the case. They simply want to cremate so that they can sell the urn...
On a cold day just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had...