Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . appear severaltimes in a paragraph, as for instance and or the. Professor, he would say, will you please repeat So the professor would repeat from and, and which-ever and he chose it was certain to be the wrong one. Excuse me, the wicked student would say, but I meantthe and just ahead of that one. There was apt to be trouble when the recitations werein progress. Some malefactor would listen for a momentor two to Mr. Smith reciting, then up would go his handand he would say: Professor, what does Mr. Smith me
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . appear severaltimes in a paragraph, as for instance and or the. Professor, he would say, will you please repeat So the professor would repeat from and, and which-ever and he chose it was certain to be the wrong one. Excuse me, the wicked student would say, but I meantthe and just ahead of that one. There was apt to be trouble when the recitations werein progress. Some malefactor would listen for a momentor two to Mr. Smith reciting, then up would go his handand he would say: Professor, what does Mr. Smith mean when he saysso and so 1 Mi emortes o, B rown 405 Of course, that required a long course of explanationand very likely some retaliation on Mr, Smiths part. At last it got so bad the president came in. He saidthe pandemonium would have to stop. For a day or twothere was an improvement, then the old tumult was re-newed. Again the president appeared and this time hedeclared that if the professor was obliged to report thename of any unruly student, that student would be ex-. Marston Field HouseAndrews Field pelled. This kept us quiet for a day or so, but as wewere a new class to the professor he hardly knew us byname and the result was that we were soon in as much ofan uproar as ever. Then for a third time the presidentcame in and this time he told us that he would not sub-mit a member of the faculty to the insults of so unmanlya lot of young barbarians, or words to that effect. I be-lieve that was the end of the professors connection withthe college. Henry Robinson Palmer, i8go. 406 Memories of Brown Something Doing in theEighties IN the eighties there was generally something doingabout the Brown campus. In those days the col-lege rooms were heated by stoves, one in each room,and in the closet was a supply of coal, laboriouslycarried up from one to three flights of stairs on the backsof the coal handlers. In the late autumn, when the campuswas covered with fallen leaves, it was
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