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...students lose in Dr. Peabody, moreover, not only a kind friend, but a positive benefactor. Many needy young men, without regard to rank, used to receive from him annually sums ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars. It was understood that he received funds from wealthy friends for such aid to needy scholars. It now turns out, however, that by far the largest amount of these funds was given to Professor Peabody - by Professor Peabody himself; in other words, that with the departure of our pastor from the College, it loses one of its most effectual benefactors. Greatly...
DESIROUS of becoming a benefactor of my race, of serving my fellow-students, and of writing an article for the Crimson, I have developed a plan which cannot fail to be of inestimable advantage to all concerned. Owing to the fact that the past winter has been unusually trying to the Harvard constitution, much sickness and many unavoidable absences from college exercises have resulted. I have, therefore, just patented my AITEGRAPH (Greek for petition-writer); a machine simple in construction, warranted for four years, - with a cut attachment, for recording absences from prayers, and a register, for noting down...
...Lantern has recently been presented to Trinity College. Surely this announcement will strike a tender chord in the soul of each of our readers; many, perchance, will be unable to restrain a silent tear when they recall the delights of happy childhood's hours. Ah! would that some kind benefactor of our College might be as generous to us! Perhaps such innocent pleasures would wean us away from the gross immorality and vice which prevail among us! But stay! The Tablet further says; "Its chief value does not consist in its ordinary use as a means of displaying pictures." Perhaps...
...finally, George got his degree and graduated. Some people thought that he would have lost it if his father had not been a benefactor of the college. A few even went so far as to whisper that a degree should not be for sale at any price. However, there are always grumblers, and one cannot expect to please everybody...
...They can't help it," interrupted the old man; "I'm their benefactor...