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Obituary.

Oliver Wendell Holmes '29.

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Samuel Dexter, of Chicago, one of the most prominent members of the class of '90, died yesterday morning at St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston, of cerebrospinal meningitis, after a very brief illness. Mr. Dexter was a man of the highest endowments both physical and mental and his sudden death removes one of the most promising of the recent graduates of Harvard. He was universally admired and respected,- a man at once recognized as a natural leader by all with whom he came in contact. After graduation he spent two years at the Harvard Law School and has since been reading law in the office of Henrich, Allen and Boynon, in Chicago. He was a delegate from Harvard University to the University of Dublin at the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of that institution in 1892.

Mr. Dexter was president of his class

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