Word: greenough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This institution, which is situated in the same town as Amherst College, is known as the Agricultural college. President Greenough, indorsed by the menders of the faculty has inaugurated a new system of study which ought to prove of great benefit to a large class of young men and have an important bearing on the higher education of the times. In addition to the previous instruction in farming and hortieulture, he proposes to furnish a full four years course in the natural sciences, modern languages and literature, together with philosophy, economy and history. As our ordinary colleges are the supplements...
...invitations for the Roberts Hall Assemblies are out. The managers are Mr. P. L. Livingston, '85, and Mr. Greenough White...
...principal disputants stood 45 to 40. The vote on the merits of the whole argument stood 37 to 26. The following gentlemen spoke: Merriam, Wilson, Prentiss, McDuffie, McArthur, Gifford, Barnes, Richardson, Carrier, Libby, Conant, Eaton, Sanders. After the debate, Mr. Hansin brought forward resolutions on the death of Greenough Thayer, which were adopted. Mr. Eaton suggested that instead of the meeting being opened by speeches by all four of the principal disputants, two (one affirmative and one negative) should speak and the debate then be thrown open to the house, the other two principal disputants closing. Mr. Wait spoke...
...death of Greenough Thayer it has pleased our Heavenly Father, in the exercise of that divine wisdom which we can not question, to remove from our midst one who had already succeeded, in the brief time we have been together, in winning the esteem and trust of his class-mates. His life has been before us day by day, full of earnest zeal and of patient devotion to his studies ; and although his character has been thus unfolded in his life, we feel that in the contemplation of his heroic death it may find its truest interpretation. It is thus...
...resigned and Mr. Winslow was elected captain of the nine in place of Mr. Thayer. Mr. Bradford was re-elected captain of the eleven. Messrs. Halhert, Webster and Nutter were appointed a committee to take suitable action on behalf of the class in relation to the death of Mr. Greenough Thayer, late member of the class...