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Professor Packard of Yale accepted the directorship of the school for the academic year 1883-84. Professor Tyler of Amherst and Professor Van Benschoten of Wesleyan University were added to the committee, making the total number fourteen. The chairman reported that he had received favorable letters from Dartmouth and the University of Virginia, and had reason to expect equally encouraging replies from Cornell, Union and the University of California, by whose acquisition a total sum of $3500 would be pledged for the annual expenses of the school for ten successive years. It was also reported that the good offices...
...history of Bowdoin College, Professor A. S. Packard says he remembers Hawthorne as he looked in the recitation room, "with the same shy, gentle bearing, black, drooping, full, inquisitive eye, and low, musical voice that he ever had;" and Longfellow, sitting two seats behind Hawthorne a fair-haired youth, blooming with health and early promise...
PRINCETON, N. J., October 25, 1882. The sickness and recent death of the only daughter of Prof. Packard, together with the dangerous illness of Dr. Atwater, from which he is only just recovering, has made this month an anxious and a sad one for the members of the faculty...
...well as the use of the school library. The committee of the school stands as follows: John Williams White (chairman). Harvard University; Henry Drisler, Columbia College; Basil L. Gildersleeve, Johns Hopkins University; E. W. Gurney, Harvard University; Albert Harkness, Brown University; Thomas W. Ludlow (secretary), New York; Lewis R. Packard, Yale College; Francis W. Palfrey, Boston; Frederic J. De Peyster (treasurer), New York; William M. Sloane, College of New Jersey; Charles Eliot Norton, president of the Archaeological Institute; William W. Goodwin, director of the School at Athens...
...owing to parsimony or some other hidden cause, it still remains an enigma why a better attendance has not been given to the lectures under the auspices of the Art and Philological Societies for the benefit of the Assos expedition. The first, on the OEdipus, by Prof. Packard, drew but a very meagre audience. Mr. Agassiz was better supported, as was Prof. Goodwin, but in no wise as they should have been. The lectures have been exceptionally good, dealing with a class of subjects which ought to interest a large number of students. We say students, for the truth...