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...George Wheatland of Salem, Massachusetts died yesterday at his home from old age. He graduated from Harvard at the age of eighteen and afterwards studied law with the late Leverett Saltonstall. He was always active in public life, and devoted to his profession in which he had amassed a great fortune. Mr. Wheatland served in the Salem Common Council in 1841 and in the board of Aldermen in 1842-43. He was a brother of Dr. Henry Wheatland, the president of the Essex Institute...
Nathaniel Ropes, '55 who was in the same class with Phillips Brooks, died Monday in Salem...
...University Chapel for the valedictory exercises of the Senior class. Oration by Devereux of Salem, poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy and abounded with wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddess the ladies present, and in doing so he sang very amusingly of his "hapless amour with too tall a maid...
Wiggin pitched for the first time since the Easter trip, and did very well. He struck out eleven men, and seemed to have considerable speed. Upton caught him very creditably, on the whole. The battery for Lovell's was Kiley, an old Salem pitcher, and McKeever. Harvard's batting was not particularly good, most of the balls being hit into the air. Upton got two three-baggers, and there were five singles. Four men struck out. Aside from that there were twelve outs on flies. Harvard's fielding was good, what there was of it, but there were very...
...idea that we cannot have so good boy choirs as England is noted for. Choir masters in this country are understanding better the matter of vocal culture and it is found that the American boy can produce as good a musical tone as the English lad. "Stories of Salem Witchcraft" continue the interesting account of the trial and condemnation of witches during the seventeenth century. The writer cites many of the astonishing charges which were trumped up against the unfortunate victims and the terrible ordeals which they had to meet. It was not till 1693 that belief in witchcraft...