Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said, he saw a gentleman looking about the grounds. He asked him if he would like to look at the buildings. He said he should, and then inquired for President Chamberlin, and remarked that he had a check in his pocket for the college. He was told that he was in Europe. Prof...
...devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin Review furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the Review, "the president of a neight, the guest of prominent citizens. He saw the large number of people that were upon the streets and inquired how large a police force the town had. "None, whatever," was the reply. 'But how are all these students kept in order?" was the next question. 'We have ladies in the institution.' The influence of the ladies...
EDITIORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-I saw in your paper this morning an editorial about cold examination halls in Massachusetts. An hour or two later I was working at an examination in Sever 37. I am sorry to say that much the same fault might be found with that room as with Massachusetts. We shivered a large part of the morning because one of the windows perched near the roof could not be closed by any means. Sever 37 is never noted as being a very warm place to sit but this morning it was terrible. It does seem...
...really loved Greek was held back by five who hated it, when the ten really earnest Greek scholars in a class could get on no farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor...
...miser. His gifts in charity were large, and he found many ways to extend a helping hand to his fellowmen. One noticeable act of generosity was his giving to his native village in Greece a system of public water-works, the need of which he saw upon his visit there. He conducted courses of study in the college until, at the beginning of last year, sickness compelled him to give up a course he contemplated giving. He had again become about well last summer, but the coming again of winter confined him to his room. He is little known...