Dr. Edward Hall Nichols '86, failing to rally after being overcome by the heat last week died yesterday morning at his home on Marlboro street, Boston. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Arlington Street Church.

Dr. Nichols one of the most prominent surgeons in Boston, was especially well known to University alumni and undergraduates on account of his long connection with the athletic life of the college, particularly with the football team of which he was the doctor in charge for 20 years. When an undergraduate he won his "H" in baseball as a pitcher and later coached the University nine for eight years. He was also for three years a member of the Athletic Committee and at the time of his death was a member of the Baseball Advisory Committee.

In the World War Dr. Nichols made an especially meritorious record. He was commissioned an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army and in 1915 took over the first Harvard Unit to France Later in the American Expeditionary Force he was a lieutenant-colonel and commanded the base hospital known as the Boston City Hospital Unit in the medical corps. He returned to this country in January, 1919, and shortly afterwards was cited by General Persh1ing "for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service at Base Hospital No. 7, Joue-les-Tours, France".

Born in 1864, Dr. Nichols prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, graduated from the University in 1886 and from the Medical School in 1890. From 1892 to 1984 he was executive assistant and assistant superintendent at the Boston City Hospital.