Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geological department of the University in honor of Professor J. E. Wolff '79, who will retire next year from active duty. After several informal speeches, Dr. Wolff talked on the history of the Mineralogical and Geological departments, from the founding of the mineral collection in 1795 by Professor Benjamin Water house '86, Hon., through its subsequent growth, until the present division of geology was formed...
Last Monday a large part of the library, consisting of books selected by Professor R. B. Perry '97 and Dr. Benjamin Rand '79 of the philosophical department of the University, was presented to the University by the James family. All the remaining books, which numbered much over 1000, were placed on sale on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week to the University professors. For the past two days books have been on sale to the students...
Almost a century and a half ago Benjamin Franklin made his famous remark on the importance of "hanging together", and the remark, together with the "Saturday Evening Post", has come down from that day to this. This afternoon, with the same end in view, the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association will discuss the problems before it, and the means to be adopted in solving them...
...important part of the collection consists of about 400 volumes, almost all of which have to do with philosophy, psychology, and the moral sciences; these books have been selected, with the counsel and assistance of Professor R. B. Perry, G. '97, and Dr. Benjamin Rand '79 of the philosophical department at the University, because of the unusual interest atatching to the annotations by Professor James which appear in them. They contain numerous marginal comments and interlineations, mostly in pencil, which throw light on the development of James's philosophical ideas and on the influences which shaped his thought...
...from the dim recesses of the bookshelf of knowledge comes a work entitled The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, edited by F. H. Smith and published by the Macmillan Company in 1907. On page 206 of the seventh volume of this work appears the letter from Franklin to Mme. Brillon, called The Ephemera, written...