Word: alle
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"I am here in special trust, charged to represent the class of 1828, and to say such few words as I may be able to say at all, in strict reference to our Golden Wedding, on this fiftieth anniversary of our marriage to the Muses, whom we had courted for...
"BRETHREN: These old familiar strains have set us in easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are...
"In my last annual report I proved by figures that, while we welcome hither alike the sons of the rich and the sons of the poor, the college is mainly recruited from the independent, well-to-do class, who are neither very rich nor very poor. For a poor man...
"In conclusion, gentlemen, I cannot sit down without expressing to you my warmest admiration of the scene at which I was permitted to assist this morning. The dignity, the solemnity of that performance has made a most profound impression upon my mind. And above all, when I consider the amount...
296 BEACON STREET, BOSTON,June 24, 1878.DEAR SIR: I find your little book a very satisfactory guide to the most interesting Cambridge localities, well written, well arranged, and exceedingly well illustrated. I must not praise it as if I had carefully studied all its details, but I am disposed to...