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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary. | 12/16/1892 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Rooms. | 11/21/1884 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BUNDLE OF LETTERS. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...shall a detur certainly receive

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

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