Word: come
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...what arrangements could be made for the instruction of one hundred Cuban teachers in the Summer School, President Eliot replied that a balance of $2500, left over from last year's Cuban Summer School fund, could be applied towards the expenses of any Cuban teachers who might come this summer. According to the plan proposed, a part of the teachers' salaries was to be used in paying their expenses, and they were to study only English, which is now prescribed in the Cuban schools. It has not yet been definitely decided whether any teachers will come, but as the plan...
...judgment are lenient; those of the world are severe and strict. Nor is the reason for this hard to understand. Men in college, with no keen competition of the world's life to drive them apart and with countless ties of common associations to draw them together, naturally come to regard and to trust one another as friends: individual struggle is the characteristic of the life of the outside world; there is less common sympathy and forbearance there than among men in college, and if any man does not definitely show himself in heart and deed in sympathy with other...
...hospitality of the University has been extended to the delegates of the Y. M. C. A. convention to be held in Boston during the rest of this week. Parties will come to Cambridge from Wednesday to Saturday and will be conducted about the University by undergraduate guides. The athletic authorities have also granted the use of Soldiers Field to the Association, and track games will be held there on Saturday afternoon...
...explaining that although it may seem somewhat strange that a man not a contemporary of those Harvard men who fell in the Civil War should be chosen to deliver an address commemorative of their deeds, it is, after all, fitting that the tribute from Harvard to Harvard men should come directly from the University,--in this and in succeeding years from men who are still a part of Harvard undergraduate life...
There should be no note of sadness in services commemorating them. They faced their duty manfully and answering a call that seemed to them to come from God. The spirit of all the 117 Harvard men who died for the Union cause was the same; its keynote was fidelity and unfailing, cheerful courage...