Word: adds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful pen of the master has here traced words that will add much to the lustre of an already fair and shining reputation. Jewels of thought some of native gold, some chosen from that intellectual wealth gained little by little, from all countries and from all minds which Mr. Lowell more than almost any other American has laid away in the storehouse...
...athletes are given an opportunity to add fresh leaves to the wreaths of fame which they have won both on the water and on the field. The practical re-admission of Harvard to the foot ball fraternity comes to-day. Much depends, then, on the issue of this afternoon's game, for it would be glorious indeed if Wesleyan could in future boast of a victory over Harvard on the occasion of her celebration in 1886! Let our players look to it, then, that no such disgrace occurs...
...curiosity or novelty. A celebration is of interest to us, not from the fact that it is a celebration, but because it has a meaning deeper and more potent than any fact or expectation to be seen on the surface. It is this spirit of insight which will add zest to the programme of to-day and which will prove itself to be Harvard's greatest accomplishment during the last two hundred and fifty years...
...Harvard herself - by using the grace of the college authorities as a means to create a nice little vacation, to be spent in some other quarter of the globe than Cambridge. It would seem hardly necessary to say that every undergraduate should consider it his duty to add zest to the coming reunion at least by being present - a reunion which is to represent the mind and power of the hosts of men who have been graduated from this institution during the last fifty years...
...signatures for the torchlight parade are doing well in all classes but the seniors. The number signed of them is decidedly less - hardly more than half as many as the freshmen. Such should not be the case, and let each senior do what he can to add to the number from his class...