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In The Good Old Days

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Day
4
Month
November
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Prof. Andrew TenBrook has revised his history of the Univeraity and mado extensive additions to it producing a very valuable work which lio now has ready for publieation. Ho treats the University as tho result of a gradual evolutionary process and no one is botter able to teil of this evoiution than he, for coming hsre as professor of moral and mental philosophy in the year when the college was established, ho has had un opportunity to wateh the great institution f rom its earliest infancy. The early history is often amusng. Every act of conduct was governed by rules, such as the one requiring all students to be in by l.alf-past nine every night. Once threo students were called before the faculty, given ;i long trial aud finally expelled from the University for stealino; a few grapes froin a meiaber of the faculty. Another stole a big turkey which a professor was saving for thanksgiving and another faculty sceance followed. Practical jokes on faculty members were then common. Prof. Williams was specially selected as the object of these jokes because he was always good natured and becauso he generally got eveu by his brilliant repartee. Once he went to hear a elass of freshmen recite. He saw tney were expoct,ing something and when he upened Lis desk, a frog hopped out. "Oli! Another freshman," said the professor. Another time a donkey was placod in his room. When the professor arrived his students stood outside the door. He looked in and then said -aloud to himself, "There'8 only one of them here." Passing, on the history takcs up the organization of tho professional departments. Tho medical department had a specially hard time at first. It was difïicult to procure subjects for dissection as no law had then been passed by which the state would furnish them. One demonstfator of anatomy had by hook and crook secured a good lot of bodies but beiug called to another medical school he decided to take them along. So with a few assistants he entered the anatomical' building, bound and gagged tMe janitor and stole the bodies which were sent away. When the board of regents talKed of a suit he threatened to teil how and where the subjects wtre procured. The book traces he University from this early and chaotic period down to the present and can not fail to be of the highest interest.

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