Word: curtis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such were the beginnings of the University of Wisconsin, 100 years ago. Last week Wisconsin's Historian Merle Curti concluded that today's students would have found little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful...
...Merle E. Curti '20, professor of History at Columbia University, will speak at a meeting of the American Civilization Group in the Kirkland House Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...