Word: professors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PROFESSOR is credited with the following: "Nothing can exceed the stupidity of a Freshman when he first comes here, unless it is his conceit after he has been here a few months and thinks that he knows everything...
AMONG the brevities this week, thanks to the courtesy of Professor Paine. we are able to print the prospectus of the "University Symphony Concerts," to be given this autumn and winter at Sanders Theatre, if, as the prospectus states, a sufficient number of subscriptions can be obtained. We sincerely hope that all will respond heartily to this appeal, and lose no time in going to Sever's to secure their seats. The proportion of students among the audience the last two years has been smaller than one would expect. Is it not a comment on our musical taste that...
...readers will find in another column a notice of the sad death of Professor Baxter, who was to have returned to his duties here this autumn. As all who have been in his classes will testify, Mr. Baxter was a very interesting teacher, and his kindness and geniality succeeded in making elocution quite popular among us, notwithstanding the small encouragement given by the Faculty to that important study...
WHILE we regret the loss of Professor Baxter, however, we are very much rejoiced at the choice of his successor, Mr. George Riddle, as instructor in elocution. Mr. Riddle, having taught here for five months of last year, does not come among us as a stranger; and there can, therefore, be no uncertainty as to his fitness for the position. The acknowledged success of the Boylston prize declamation last June was mainly owing to his exertions, and we hope that the interest then aroused will continue among the students of all the classes. Certain it is, that if this does...
...shock to many of us to read of Professor Baxter's sad death by drowning at Cape May on August 15. Although comparatively few have enjoyed the privilege of his instruction, his face was familiar to many. His cheerful disposition and kindly manner endeared him to all who knew him. Men of Mr. Baxter's stamp are not so numerous in the world that the loss of one of them passes by unfelt...