Word: drew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young and enthusiastic supporters, with whom he has carried on the reform until the English department is accounted one of the best in the college...
...Drew nearer to me, nothing now in sport...
...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Aff., Merriam, L. S., Hesseltine, '88, Neg., O. B. Judson, '90, Balch, '90, Drew, '89, F. M. Brown, '88, Shaughnessy, L. S., Mahany...
...action of the Dartmouth faculty in suspending two editors of the "AEgis," an annual publication, for persisting in their refusal to give the name of the student who drew a cut for the paper in which the president figured, appears very hasty and inconsiderate. The cut in question was entitled, "Suggestions for a Chapel Window," representing the death of Ananis, with two young men carrying the body. Under the design was "1817," the year of President Bartlett's birth, "Rev. - -, D. D., LL. D." At the present stage of college tolerance, it is surprising that a bit of college pleasantry...
...Arts only taught the "trivial arts," as Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectics, While the Quadruvian was reserved for higher art students. Thus the teachers of arts would have their fees reduced by the graduates of of the Chancellor. However, with the necessity of more specialized teaching the board which drew the professors of any of the four disciplines together would strengthen the separate unions of the Masters of Arts, Theology, Law and Medicine. As time went on, the teachers in the unions found that their common interests would be guarded better by relying on themselves than by appealing to the other...