Word: tutorships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constant; and it sufficed to keep history from dying out in the student-consciousness. It would be unprofitable to follow this little classical stream through its meanderings to its present deeper and wider flow; it is enough to say that it began to expand during the tutorship of Charles Anthon, who was called to teach classics at Columbia in 1820. Later on he divided this department with Professor Drisler, but remained at the head until 1867, when he died. Without this steady current of classical and antiquarian instruction which he represented at Columbia for nearly fifty years, it is doubtful...
...arms for him. "Mr. President, I would have on my shield a representation of Commencement Day, and I should be delivering the best speech given for years; on one side, supporting the shield, would be a degree, summa cum laude; on the other, the President handing me a tutorship in Greek; for a motto, 'Conquer the Greek particle...