Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor William Cook will give out the marks in German 4 at 3 precisely, today...
...poetry, which he freely employed for college purposes. On Class Day he was the poet, and his verses were considered to be very good. He had one of the twenty-nine parts on "Commencement Day," and spoke on John Knox in a "Conference on the Character of John Knox, William Pean and John Wesley." Josiah Quincy, his classmate, and the winner of the first prize at the Bowdoin contest, made this entry in his journal under date of July 16, 1821: "Attended a dissertation of Emerson's, in the morning, on the subject of Ethical Philosophy. I found it long...
...though the speakers are not the same. The object is to bring before the divinity students gentlemen connected with the university, who are not teachers in that department. The speakers are: The Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Rev. J. Fev. J. F. Clarke of the board of overseers, Professor William James of the philosophical department, Professor N. S. Shaler of the scientitic department, Professor W. W. Goodwin of the Greek department, and Dr. H. P. Bowditch, dean of the Medical School...
...have been made concerning the unhealthfulness of Yale College and of the supposed cases of sanitary defects, a special inquiry has been made by a committee consisting of C. F. Chandler of Columbia College, N. Y., Dr. C. A. Lyndsley of the New Haven board of health, and Prof. William H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific School, for the benefit of the patrons and friends of the college. The committee reports that there is no specially unhealthful condition; that there is no reason for alarm, and that the students seem to be in their usual health...
...motto "Be Thrifty." The library is one of the largest among the colleges and contains over 60,000 volumes besides many rare manuscripts. New College belies its name, as it was founded in 1586 and besides the usual amount of plate and relics has the crozier of its founder William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, wonderfully wrought in silver gilt and studded with jewels and probably the finest relic of its kind in the world. Lincoln and St. John Colleges are smaller than the average and of but little interest with the exception that the former contains a manuscript copy...