Word: low
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual report of President Seth Low to the trustees of Columbia College, covering the work of the college in all its departments during the academic year ending June 30, 1893, has just been issued...
President Low, in presenting his report, refers to the steps by which the college has passed from the condition in which it consisted of a number of unrelated shools, into a well-organized university, having a common life which animates every part. This process involved the absorption of the College of Physicians and Surgeons as the medical school of the university and the creation of two schools of Philosophy and Pure Science to conduct the advanced work in philosophy, philology, and letters, and in mathematics and natural science...
...life of man on earth is like an April day. Sometimes the sky is cloudy with low hanging clouds, which in turn, feeling the warm infiuence of the sun, give way to this monarch of light, leaving great clefts in the leaden masses of cloud through which the sky shines clear and blue. In our daily life good and evil may not be mingled in equal proportion, nor can we judge the proportion of good and evil in the lives of our companions from exterior appearances, for many may be living under the blackest of clouds who are apparently enjoying...
...float raised on blocks before it was frozen fast, so that it could be put in on the first tide after the ice left the river. Mr. Geo. Weld kindly contributed the money to have the float thoroughly repaired, so that hereafter it will not be submerged at low tide. We have, during the past week, been trying to get a building mover to put it in; we may succeed yet, but if it cannot be moved on rollers, it will surely be put in on the high tide of March...
President Seth Low has given $10,000 to found a scholarship in Sociology at Columbia...