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...Soudan was governed by officers sent by the Khedive from Cairo. The Soudan service was looked upon by the officers as punishment and a place at which to live as easily as possible and get rich. Every bit of property the natives had was taxed. The oppression was intolerable. Such was the condition of affairs when Gordon arrived. He succeeded Sir Samuel Baker as governor of the Equatorial Provinces, which extended from the 23rd degree of north latitude to the equator and from the Red Sea westward. In this great tract of country Gordon had absolute power. This condition...
...members of the Faculty have expressed their endorsement of the movement in strong terms. One spoke of the accommodations in the post office as the worst he had ever seen and characterized the place as a "a nasty hole." Another said that it was unfit for a dog to live in." Another said that though the University alone, represented nearly five thousand persons, including Radcliffe College and the families of instructors, there was not as good post office accommodation as would ordinarily be given in a town of five thousand inhabitants...
...feel greatly privileged in having been able to see the University of Cambridge in America, of which both you and we are justly proud. The memory of our visit to Harvard will ever live in our minds, and we shall go back to the old country with a sympathy and reverence for the Cambridge of America because both you and we love and owe so much to the Cambridge of England...
...Social Union will be conducted this year on the same general plan as last year but with a somewhat enlarged scope. H. S. Roberts '97 will live in the Social Union building and will be ready to help all those who come to him about the courses of instruction. Last year there were ninety students and at present there are over a hundred, while the lists are not yet complete. It is greatly desired that the work of the union should be more widely known among College men. The Educational Department is not, however, the only side of the Social...
...class of 1890 desire to express their grief at the loss of their classmate, E. F. Rogers. He was known, as an undergraduate, to a large number of men who respected him for his real ability and for the live interest he took in all class and college affairs. Those who knew him more intimately recognized in him a genuineness and unselfishness to which his friends can bear sincere witness. His graduate work was characterized by a thoroughgoing patience and persistence which earned for him high academic distinction. In what he had accomplished he honored his class, which learned with...