Maria Sanford is out of University Beloved Professor takes last farewell of her classes Twenty-nine years of faithful work her record Minneapolis Morning Tribune, May 28, 1909 excerpt - Groups of university students about the campus yesterday morning stood silent and distrait, but the men lifted their hats with deep reverence and the girls tried to smile brightly as they bowed to Miss Maria Sanford, as for the last time she passed along the walks to teach her classes in Folwell hall. For 29 years, year in and year out, Prof. Maria Sanford has been on the faculty of the Minnesota institution. No other teacher there has been on the faculty so long as she. . . |