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Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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been the college professorof mathematics, though other important branches in philosophyand in science have from time to time come under his supervision. He is the only graduate of the Uuniversity who has receivedthe degree of Master of Science, in the branch of mathematics.This degree was conferred in 1888. Alpha Omicron is proud to cite Professor Ford as one ofher first initiates, a man of thorough worth, who has won hishigh standing through his own perseverance. He came to col-lege with an insufficient supply of money, and he earned, outsideof his college duties, by office work and by teaching enough tocarry himself through. As a professer in the college, he is a universal favorite amongthe students, except perhaps at examination time; but these fewblows at the students heart strings only tend, after the first ef-fects wear away, to deepen their regard for him, since they arethus reminded of the fact that they receive their discipline fromone who is a thorough master of his subject.
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ROBERT DALE FORD. IN MEMORIAM. ©NLY so short a while ago as last summer, Lambda Chapterwas thrown into mourning when the news of the death ofJohn E. Baker was communicated to the brothers in their re-spective homes far away and again the hand of death has beenlaid upon another town brother, Mitch Cummins, who died inCumberland river, Sunday, June 12, 1898, when in the 23rdyear of his age. His comrades and brothers of Lambda desireto place on record a testimony of their grief at his untimely end. In his sudden and seemingly premature death, we recognizethe hand of an all-wise Providence who doeth all things well.*Lambda Chapter realizes that she has sustained an irretrievableloss. Lebanon has lost an honored citizen, the students, a faithfulfriend and his church and Sunday School an earnest and zealousworker. The boys of 99 who return will listen in vain for thesound of his footsteps on the stairs, no more will that echo beheard along the passage way. That voice we loved so well tohea

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