Word: professors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PROFESSOR SIBLEY has resigned the position of Librarian, which he has filled so long and so ably. The position has been offered to Mr. Winsor, Librarian of the Boston Public Libraries...
Soon after half past nine in the morning, the Seniors formed in front of Holworthy, with the band at their head, and started for breakfast at Professor Lowell's. A few, unable to endure the fatigue of so long a tramp, seated themselves in horse-cars or cabs, and took their ease on their way to Elmwood. About twelve o'clock they reappeared in the Square, and marched around the Yard, cheering the buildings in the old-fashioned way. The undergraduates gave them nine cheers in front of University, and after a chorus in front of Holworthy the Class separated...
...degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
...trenching on the prerogatives of the President, offer a toast myself, and ask a gentleman, one of the professors of this University, a fair illustration of the word that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and in this case I may say, if reports speak truly, the office had to knock several times at the door before it was bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor...
...Lowell, in responding, incidentally remarked of Professor Sibley that he [Mr. Sibley] had given more to the cause of education, in accordance with his means, than anybody else ever gave in his lifetime, and closed by saying that