Frank Bolles.

The University will be deeply grieved to learn of the sudden death of Frank Bolles, who died of pneumonia yesterday afternoon at his home on Berkeley street.

Mr. Bolles was taken ill with the grippe during the Christmas vacation, but at the reopening of college had almost recoved. Early last week, however, he became worse, and on Saturday was suffering with pneumonia in both lungs. Tuesday night his physician gave up hope of his recovery, and on Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock he died, after being unconscious for nearly twenty-four hours.

Frank Bolles was born at Winchester, on the thirty-first of October, 1856. His father, John A. Bolles, was at one time Secretary of State of Massachusetts, and later served in the war as Brigadier General. His mother was the sister of John A. Dix, Governor and Minister to France.

The early boyhood of Mr. Bolles was spent in rural New England. Later his family moved to the south, where he lived for several years in Baltimore and Washington. When twenty years old he entered the Law School of the Columbian College, D. C., where he spent three years, graduating in 1879 with the degree of LL.B. He then came to Harvard and entered the Law School. While at Harvard he founded the Daily Echo, one of the first of the college dailies, and later, by his essay on "International Arbitration," secured the Bowdoin Prize. In addition to his law course at Harvard, he took outside courses in the academic department amounting to two full years work.

After leaving college Mr. Bolles devoted himself to literary work. In July 1883, he became an editorial writer on the Boston Advertiser, in which work he was connected with Professor Dunbar, who was at that time editor of the Advertiser.

In April, 1886, he left the Advertiser, because it had ceased to be an independent paper, and returned to Harvard as the private secretary of President Eliot. Later in the same year he was appointed secretary of the University.

It was through him that the Employment Burean was established, by means of which students who were in need of it could receive employment during the summer vacation, or when leaving college could find positions as teachers. It was purely by his efforts that the pamphlet about necessary expenses at Harvard was issued, which did much to dispel the theory that Harvard was a rich man's college.

It was by such services as these that Mr. Bolles made a mechanical office one of help and, we might almost say, of charity.

His strictly literary work dealt with nature, of which he was a great lover and student. "The Land of the Lingering Snow," and "At the North of Bearcamp Water," show an appreciation of nature, such as perhaps no man has expressed since the time of Thorean.

In the death of Mr. Bolles, the college has lost a valuable assistant, and the students have lost a trusted and beloved friend. He was a true Harvard man.