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Arthur Dexter '51, died last Saturday at his home in Boston. After leaving college he spent much of his time in Paris and Rome, studying art and architecture. Mr. Dexter wrote many reviews for the magazines on subjects in art and literature, and was the author of the chapter on "The Fine Arts in Boston" in the Memorial History of Boston...
...literatures. His teaching was equally exact and inspiring, and his personal influence on young men was powerful, far-reaching, and permanent. He was an admirable critic, both of style and of thought. Singularly free from narrowness and pedantry, his judgment was discriminating, wise, and liberal. Whatever he said or wrote bore the impress of his own strong individuality...
Professor Gould was born in Boston in the year 1824, the son of the late Benjamin Apthorp Gould and Lucretia Dana Goddard. In his youth he showed a taste for botany and when but ten years old wrote a lecture upon electricity, and his subsequent school career was one of high distinction. At nineteen he graduated from Harvard and for five years studied here and abroad. His study of astronomy was pursued under Gauss and in the scientific courses of Paris, also in the observatory there, then under the direction of Arago. On returning to America he was employed...
Professor Whitney was one of the original members of the National Academy of Science, and was a contributor to various scientific publications. He wrote also a number of geological reports and scientific books...
...Harvard's most famous graduates. Among his classmates were Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Professor George Martin Lane, Senator Hoar, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Mr. Fitzedward Hall and Professor Charles Short. While in college Professor Child was a distinguished Hasty Pudding man, and it was he and his companions who wrote the song of "The Lone Fishball...