State University Professor

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“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
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“The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.”
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