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Show DESPONDENCY LEADS TO BOY'S SUICIDE Salt Lake Lad Kills Himself Because He Failed to Get Degree at Harvard University. Funeral services for Arthur E. Smith, who committed suicide In one of the dormitories at Harvard university Tuesday, Tues-day, will be held from the home of his sister, Mrs. I. Pike, in Lynn, Mass., and burial will be in that city. Smith was a senior In the university, univer-sity, and Is thought to have been despondent de-spondent because he failed to get a bachelor of arts degree there this spring. He was 22 years of age at the time of his death. He was the son of avld O. Smith of 917 North Second West street, this city. His mother died eleven years ago. Arthur Smith attended the Poplar Grove and tho Franklin schools in this city before going east. Smith's brother and sister arc now in Massachusetts. The brother, Irving C. Smith, recently wrote to his father urging urg-ing him to attend the graduation exercises exer-cises of the class of which Arthur was a member. |