Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seldom that the newspapers get a chance to criticize a play written by a college professor, and when such a chance is given the most is made of it. This has been the case with the play of Prof. H. H. Boyesen, of Columbia. The fact that Prof. Boyesen, who is already well known in literature, should have ventured to write a play, seems to have been taker as a perfectly good excuse for all sorts of personal criticism of the author. Most of the criticisms of the play have been very favorable, whatever the critics may have said...
...last number of the Nation is an interesting letter concerning the late Prof. Sophocles. From it we learn the following facts: While yet a boy, Prof. Sophocles left his native village in Thessaly and went to a monastery at Cairo, where he devoted himself chiefly to the Greek classics, In 1820 he returned to Thessaly and entered a school there; but the war for Grecian independence breaking out in the next year, he went back to Cairo. After the war he went back to the Archipelago, where he met the Rev. Josiah Brewer, who persuaded him to come to America...
...freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while the freshmen fight to get their last honor man off the field and then to break the bowl. So when Prof. Jackson, secretary of the college faculty, announced the list of freshmen distinguished through the term, a painful silence attended the calling of each name. The last name was Whittaker of the Scientific School. Whittaker, strongly guarded by the freshmen, made his appearance at the main entrance, while the sophomores awaited...
...Berlin University in the matter, and calls particular attention to the agitation of the Greek question in England, particularly at the universities, where he thinks that the tendency of opinion is awards his side of the question. He extensively quotes the article in the January Popular Science Monthly by Prof. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, in support of his opinion...
...university, but are open to the public. They will be delivered in the chapel of Divinity Hall on Thursday evenings, as follows: Feb. 21, Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., of the board of overseers; Feb. 28, Rev. J. F. Clarke, D. D., of the board of overseers; March 13, Prof. W. James, of the Philosophical department; March 18 (Tuesday), Prof. N. S. Shaler of the Scientific department; March 27, Prof. W. W. Goodwin, of the Greek department; April 10, Dr. H. P. Bowditch, dean of the Medical School...