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Professor Emeritus Crawford Howell Toy, LL.D. '04, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, died yesterday morning at his home, 7 Lowell street, after a prolonged illness which has prevented him from teaching for some time. He was Hancock professor at the University from 1880 to 1909, and has been Professor Emeritus since September 1, 1909. Until 1903 he was also Dexter lecturer on biblical history, and was the author of numerous books on the history of religions. At the time of his death Professor Toy was 83 years of age, having been born at Norwalk, Va., on March...
Making the world over has been the profession of Harvard College ever since its earliest days. It nourished such image-breakers as John Hancock, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Wendell Phillips--all of whom were thought by the "best people of the time" to be turning the world upsidedown. What are we here for whether students or teachers, but to concrete what we find to be good and permanent? and on that sub structure to build new mansions for our souls? What is the use of all this insistence on a man's thinking for himself...
...time when Bolsheviks and Reds and Spartacides are destroying enormous nations this course may to some appear the wisest. But is it not a bit of misplaced enthusiasm to thrust a Krag into the hands of a lieutenant, who has just checked in a dozen machine guns at Camp Hancock, or to ask a man returning to college from France to profit by simulated battles with simulated. Huns at Fresh Pond, or to continue the training of a score or so of j. g.'s by making them paddle a converted flat boat up the Charles...
...names of those members of the S. A. T. C. who have left for Officers' Training-Camps after being recommended by the military headquarters follows: The infantry men have reported to Camp Lee, Virginia, those entering the machine gun school to Fort Hancock, and the coast artillery division to Fortress Munroe. The list is complete to date: infantry, C. C. Adams, Jr., '21, C. P. Anderson '21, H. R. Atkinson '21, A. L. Benjamin '20, H. Berlack '20, E. L. Bigelow '21, L. S. Bing, Jr., "19, H. D. Costigan '20, J. Cowles '21, H. B. Coxe '20, P. Crystal...
Wadden, W. R., 1 Hancock...