Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual meeting and dinner of the Yale alumni of Boston were held yesterday at the Parker House. Some 150 gentlemen were present, and Rev. Walcott Calkins, class of 1856, presided. Among the gentlemen present were President Dwight, Prof. Fisher, Gov. Ames, Lieut. - Gov. Brackett, Prof. Goodwin of Harvard, Rev. W. B. Wright, Rev. H. M. Dexter, Prof. E. Y. Hinks, Prof. Coy, Hon. W. W. Crapo, Dr. Increase N. Tarbox, Mr. Linus M. Child, Mr. Alfred Hemingway, Mr. E. P. Nettleton, Judge Baldwin, Prof. Jeshup, Prof. P. P. Otis, Mr. J. Haskell Butler and others...
President Dwight, who was next called upon, was received with three cheers and a tiger. The speaker said he had taken some part in the changing of the name of Yale College to Yale University, but he asked all present to remember Prof. Fisher. He felt that he had reason to look back on his experience with credit, for this was the 10th alumni dinner he had attended, and he had four more to attend. The speaker said he believed we were passing into a new era at Yale, as well as at older universities, and he had felt...
...Veritas" called Prof. Geo. P. Fisher to the front, and he said he was glad to have been able to bring their new president to the board. The gentleman deprecated publicity to many things which are to-day given forth, and he felt that it would be good to seclude men from every phase of life where young men ought...
...Prof. Goodwin, whose bright face brought out a loud welcome, after thanking the gentlemen for their kind reception, said he could not sit still and hear these statements. The gentleman entered on a humerous speech, and, after creating repeated laughter, went on to say that 30 years ago five teachers were sufficient to teach Latin and Greek. Now the whole is elective, and ten men work harder than those five did. They gave only 28 hours a week in new instruction, and then, perhaps, half of them were not actually devoted to new instruction, and now 87 hours were given...
...CRIMSON is in receipt of the following letter from Prof. John Williams White...