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...cheerful, interested in club work, and at the same time a good worker. He was one of the organizers of the Banjo Club, an editor of the Advocate, and a member of the Pudding and O. K. And although so much with his fellow students he got a Detur in his freshman year, and graduated with honorable mention, and the degree-cum Laude. The memorial service held at his church on Monday, where there were present so many men showed only too clearly how he was esteemed here at Harvard...
...Harvard Advocate, and connected in various ways with every other organization of the college. A certificate for Highest Second-Year Honors in Mathematics hangs in a conspicuous place on the wall, and on a side table is a nicely bound book, which on closer examination proves to be a "detur...
...posted as to my college work, and therefore write to tell you how much interested I have become in it. The Freshman year is certainly a hard one. I begin to fear that I shall not lead my class, but I hope with constant application to obtain a detur if my health holds out. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your fears in regard to the depravity of Harvard life were entirely groundless. I have seen nothing of the immorality of which we read in the columns of the Middlebury Monitor. Of the success of the higher...
...shall a detur certainly receive
...taken quite a load off my mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of specie payments from me as a Detur for your good work in Latin and Greek...