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...went abroad to fit himself for the professorship of modern languages, to which his alma mater had appointed him. He returned to America and assumed the professorship at Bowdoin until 1835, when he was appointed by the faculty to fill the place of Mr. Geo. Ticknor, the professor of belles-lettres at Harvard University. In consequence of his appointment, he made another visit to Europe in the summer of 1835. While abroad his wife died, and Mr. Longfellow immediately returned home. In 1843 he married Miss Appleton of Boston, and took up his residence at the old Cragie house...
When Alma Mater was the toast...
...abstain from all complaining that is not likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside of the student world. That they foster a closer college spirit and a wider university spirit there can be no doubt, and that their practical usefulness might be largely increased, if college governors and instructors would permit a franker...
...annual dinner of the Crimson took place Friday night at Young's Hotel. A speech was made by Prof. A. S. Hill in response to the toast of "Our Alma Mater," and by Prof. Lanman and Mr. J. L. Bangs of the Acta Columbiana...
...having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell and other colleges where this system has been tried the results are for the better...