tances of the death are discussed in greater detail. Here is the
second paragraph of another obituary:

| At 8:30 tonight Mr. Blank was walking |
|with his wife on the veranda of the |
|Delmonte Hotel, when he suddenly gasped |
|as if in great pain and fell to the |
|floor. He was carried inside, but was |
|dead before the physicians reached his |
|bedside. Apoplexy is said to have been |
|the cause. |

Next comes the account of the deceased man's life. It is told very
briefly and impersonally and concerns itself chiefly with the events of
his business or professional activities. It is but a catalogue of his
achievements and the dates of those achievements. These facts are
usually obtained from the file of biographies--called the morgue--which
most newspapers keep. The account first tells when and where he was born
and perhaps who his parents were. Next his education is briefly
discussed. Then the chief events of his professional or business life.
The date of his marriage and the maiden name of his wife are included
somewhere in or at the end of this account. Usually a list of the
organizations of which the man was a member and a list of the books
which he had written are attached to this account. One of the foregoing
obituaries continues as follows:

| He was born in Urumiah, Persia, on |
|February 4, 1852, being the son of the |
|Rev. Austin H. Blank, a missionary. He |
|was graduated from Dartmouth in 1873, and|
|that college awarded him the degrees of |
|A. M. in 1876 and LL.D. in 1901. From |
|1876 to 1878 he studied at Leipzig |
|University. He was assistant professor of|
|ancient languages at the Ohio |
|Agricultural and Mechanical College from |
|1873 to 1876, associate professor of |
|Greek at Dartmouth from 1878 to 1880, |
|and dean of the collegiate board and |
|professor of classical philology at Johns|
|Hopkins in 1886 and 1887. In 1906 and |
|1907 he served as professor in the |
|American School of Classical Studies in |
|Athens. |