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...Henry Drisler, who has been professor of Greek at Columbia College for the last fifty years, has just resigned his position...
...name of Mr. E. J. Phelps, minister to England, has been mentioned for the vacant presidency of Columbia College. Acting president Professor Drisler has denied that there is any foundation for the report. It is officially stated that the only nomination as yet formally presented is that of President Potter of Union College...
...trustees of Columbia College, at a recent meeting, accepted the resignation of President F. A. P. Barnard and appointed a committee to consider nominations to fill the vacancy thus created. Professor Henry Drisler was made Acting President. A letter was received from Professor J. M. Sloan of Princeton, declining to accept the Latin professorship at Columbia...
...Prof. Drisler is now acting president of Columbia College. Prof. Sloane of Princeton has declined to accept the Chair of Latin at Columbia...
...follow this little classical stream through its meanderings to its present deeper and wider flow; it is enough to say that it began to expand during the tutorship of Charles Anthon, who was called to teach classics at Columbia in 1820. Later on he divided this department with Professor Drisler, but remained at the head until 1867, when he died. Without this steady current of classical and antiquarian instruction which he represented at Columbia for nearly fifty years, it is doubtful whether such an impetus would have been given to historical and political studies as came...