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While subject to deep mental depression, Whitcomb Field '05 shot himself at Roseburg. Oregon, yesterday. After his Junior year in College, he went on an anthropological expedition to Arizona on which he caught typhoid fever, and was subject after his recovery to periodic depressions in one of which he took his life.
In College, Field was one of the most brilliant and popular men of his class, delivering the first Ivy oration in the Stadium. He was at one time managing editor of the CRIMSON.
After his graduation from the Law School, he was employed by the law firm of Brandeis. Dunbar and Nutter of Boston, and later by Richardson, Herrick and Neave also of Boston.
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