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...many, so adroitly that he won a professor's daughter to wife. After some post-graduate work and some teaching at Beloit, Wis., he studied mathematics abroad, returning with his doctorate from the University of Gottingen to instruct at M. I. T., Yale and finally at his alma mater...
...Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, few distinguished divines have been honored by more distinguished universities. Two weeks ago, Columbia University, and, last week, Princeton, conferred upon him an honorary D.D. Already he had been so honored by New York University, 1906; by Yale, his alma mater, 1915 ; by Harvard...
...endowment of any professorship bespeaks grace in the donor. Few bespeak also an interest equal to that recognized by Harvard men in the Theodore William Richards chair in Chemistry just established in his alma mater by Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard, '92, in memory of an elder brother, Hammond Lamont...
...Salem College (Salem, W. Va.), the oldest senior graduated was John Franklin Brown, 75, who took his A.B., made plans for post-graduate work and a faculty position at his alma mater...
With these in mind, it is appalling to consider the modern possibilities disclosed by the Harverford senior's intrigue. Perhaps at the next commencement, the president of his alma mater, dreading to be the cynosure of all eyes, may peek in attired as a goody, while he confers by proxy upon the perturbed candidates their various degrees. The loop-hole of escape may even be adopted in higher circles. The President of the United States in subsequent inaugurations may take his oath of office "in absentia," 'while he attends the function as a girl scout. Surely the harassed Haverford gentleman...