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...become interested in the study of Indology and resolved to make it his life work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar, though to the great body of his countrymen the Century Dictionary is his greatest monument...
...Crothers of the First Church of Cambridge preached in Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "Lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies", - Psalms, 27: 11. The choir sang "Lift Up Your Heads," by Hopkins; "Show Me Thy Ways," by Roberts; and "Turn Thy Face," by Sullivan...
Francis Minot Weld, Jr., of Jamaica Plain...
...under world, and beyond Oceanus. The Erinnyes were mentioned as the punishers of perjurers after death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...
...tfLOST. - Probably in the Yard between Grays and Gore, or Grays and Mass., a plain gold ring marked "J. Warren Mead." Liberal reward for return of same to 50 Grays...