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Title: After five years : the quinquennial record of the class of 1908, Princeton university
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Princeton University. Class of 1908 Clothier, Robert C. (Robert Clarkson), 1885-1970
Subjects: Princeton University
Publisher: (Princeton?) : The Class
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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y, Pennsylvania(rb) 1300 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Maryland Son of William Parker of Natchez, Mississippi, and Pamela Richardson Finney of Bel Air, Maryland. Prepared at Moorestown Academy,Moorestown, New Jersey. A.B., Princeton, 1908. Subscribes to theMemorial Fund. Attended the Fourth and Fifth Annual Reunions. Bachelor. When we think over the men who have gone to the four corners of theworld and have seen other lands than our own, we think with pride of BillFinney, for Bill has combined a life of service with his love of travel.Bill writes us as follows: The first three years after graduation I spent teaching in the SyriaProtestant College, Beiriit, Syria. Next to Princeton this is the finest placeI know. There were several Princeton fellows there who never failed to reuneon all stated occasions. One of these reunions got us the reputation of beingsome new rehgious sect. We were all seated around a table, which wasdecorated with flowers and oranges and the usual ribbons and buntings.
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Bill Herron and Nancy Lou Tim Pfi:)ffi:n, koit.hixg it Somebody had caught a big black cat, tied a bow of orange ribbon aroundits neck and let it in for a mascot. Some time during the evening festivitiesthe beast jumped up on the table and p-raded around amid much cheering.Next day the story was told about town by some natives who had looked inthe window that the foreigners were worshipping a black cat, making sacrificesof fruits and flowers and singing and dancing before it. Bill continues: The work in the college was especially interestingbecause of the great range of country, race, and religion from which thestudents came: from Egypt and the Sudan on the South to the Balkans andRussia on the North; from Greece on the West to Persia and India on theEast, speaking twenty different languages and belonging to almost as manyreligions. Fortunately the teaching was done in English. During vacationswe traveled more or less all over Syria and Palestine; Damascus was closeenough for a week-e

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