On Tuesday evening after the sad accident to a party of our fellow students had become known, the fear arose that the disaster was even greater than was at first supposed and that a fifth student had met his death. Nothing, however, could be learned definitely as to his fate, and we were not forced to abandon the hope that he might yet prove to be alive. His mother was very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston papers and, without exception, they consented to make no mention of the young man's name on the following morning. It was a subordination of business enterprise to humane sentiment highly to be esteemed. Any deed that tends in the least to mitigate the heavy affiction awakens in us all the warmest gratitude. In the name of the University we thank the Boston press for their kind consideration.
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