Word: pox
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young ladies of Syracuse University is suffering from a severe attack of small-pox. A number of others are in quarantine, having exposed themselves to this loathsome disease by kissing the patient before her condition was known. Of course this has no connection with the fact that numbers of the gentlemen of the Institution are anxiously watching their symptoms from day to day and restricting themselves in regard to diet...
...committee on the restoration of the library and apparatus reported that their labors were completed, and that the injuries inflicted by the war had been for the most part repaired. There was no Commencement this year, owing to the war, small-pox, and the number of British in Cambridge. For several years after this the history of Harvard is replete with the chronicles of financial troubles, some few of which were occasioned...
...gladly give space to the following resolutions passed at a late meeting of the Sophomore Class in memory of their classmate, Alfred Henry Jones, who died of small-pox at Springfield, August...