Word: friends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world, or as social or moral philosophers, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he contemns them and contemns their calling. Now and then a professor of unusual force or shrewdness or attainment, keeps his place in the memory of his old pupils as a guide, philosopher, and friend; but as a general rule, our American graduates, and especially those who succeed in life afterwards, are apt to remember their college days mainly as days of fun with their classmates, and very rarely as days of instruction from men of stronger minds and longer experience...
...Blum, '90, in going to the south basement, noticed a cloud of smoke issuing from one of the coal closets and immediately attempted to extinguish the fire by the use of a hand grenade. This proved unavailing however, and he was forced to run upstairs and inform a friend, who rung in an alarm from the Square. As soon as the engine appeared the fire was quickly extinguished, not however, until it had already taken hold of the wooden partitions and began a little to burn the beams on the first floor. The occasion will be long remembered...
...practical course in the workshop, especially as such a course would combine exercise with pleasure. In case this should prove true, as it undoubtedly would, the workshop and apparatus now in use would not accommodate the number of applicants for the course. There is excellent opportunity, therefore, for some friend of our University to found, or assist in founding, a large workshop for the use both of the scientific and academic students...
...Patten presided and reported the gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Susan D. Brown to be used in the erection of a new college dormitory; of $25,000 from Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit...
INFORMATION wanted of the address of Wm. Bartlett Tyler, formerly of Harvard, class of '87. Please address "A Friend." Leavitt and Peirce...