Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903

 

Lorin Low Dame (1838-1903), A1860, G1860, H1895, was a teacher and school administrator who served as principal of the Medford High School for almost thirty years and was a trustee of Tufts College from 1895 until 1903.Dame School, an elementary school in Medford on George Street near the Tufts campus, is named in his honor.

Lorin Low Dame was born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, on March 12, 1838.In 1846 the family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, and he completed the full course of the public schools, entering Tufts in 1856.He graduated at the top of his class in 1860 and became principal of the high school in Braintree, Massachusetts the same year. In 1863 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Fifteenth Massachusetts Battery and saw active service in the gulf states and Tennessee. He was promoted to First Lieutenant and mustered out in 1865.In the years following the Civil War he was principal of high schools in Lexington, Nantucket, and Stoneham before being appointed principal of the Medford High School in 1876, a position he held for the rest of his life.

Dame served as a trustee of Tufts from 1895 until his death in 1903.He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tufts in 1895 in recognition of his achievements in and service to the community.

Dame was an avid botanist in his spare time and published several books and numerous articles on the flora of New England, including Typical Elms and Other Trees of Massachusetts, published in 1890.

Dame died at his home in Medford on January 27, 1903.

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
Dugger, Edward Jr., 1919-75
Durkee, Frank W., 1861-1939
Durkee, Henrietta Noble Brown, 1871-1946
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