Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...service in Appleton Chapel yesterday morning in commemoration of Columbus Day was one which will long be remembered by those who were present as an impressive and singularly appropriate exercise. While we enjoy unusual advantages here at Harvard in our opportunities of having men whose reputations as scholars are of the highest, we canno but realize that the privilege of hearing an address from such a man as Dr. Winsor, was a most enviable one. It is also a pleasure to listen to one so well-known as Rev. Professor Churchill, while the honor which was accorded...
Harvard appropriately observed Columbus Day by exercises in Appleton Chapel yesterday morning. After Dr. Peabody had opened the services with prayer the choir sang Prof. Paine's hymn, written expressly for the Worlds Fair and sung for the first time only through the courtesy of the committee. Dr. Justin Winsor followed with his address...
...Winsor stands perhaps without a peer among American historians and on account of recent research is especially well qualified to speak on Columbus. He began by crediting to the ancient Greeks cosmographical study which found its fruition in the 15th century. Had Carthage triumphed over Rome we might sooner have known the secrets of the Atlantic, but after all it is to the descendants of the Romans, Columbus, Vespucsi Verrizaro and John Cabot that we are indebted for the discovery of America...
...FRIDAY.Appleton Chapel, 8.45 a. m. Special Commemorative Service, Rev. Professor F. G. Peabody, Address by Justin Winsor, LL. D.; Reading of Lowell's "Columbus," by Rev. Professor J. W. Churchill...
...celebration of Columbus Day an appropriate commemorative service will be held in Appleton Chapel next Friday. The opening address will be given by Justin Winsor, L.L.D., at the special request of the corporation. Rev. Prof. W. Churchill of Andover will follow with a reading of Lowell's poem, "Columbus." The hymn written by Prof. John K. Paine, for the opening celebration of the World's Fair at Chicago, will be sung here by the college choir and University Glee Club. The privilege of using this hymn has been granted Prof. Paine by the authorities at Chicago. The services will begin...