Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Year by year to your feet come new men; year by year that band of men, who claim the honor of bearing your name, increases in number, for four short years we live among the places which the magic of tradition has turned to shrines. And to those same shrines through all the long after-years we shall turn for sustenance of life...
...entertained at the University by the Phillips Brooks House Association next Friday. This organization of 45 boys from the slums of San Francisco is in Boston during this week giving exhibitions consisting of dramatics, gymnastics and musical selections at the Boston Theatre. Friday the members of the club will come out to Cambridge at noon, when they will be entertained at lunch by individual Freshmen at the Freshman Halls. After lunch the club will be shown around the University and late in the afternoon President Lowell will meet it in a body in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...stop to think how much we owe to that courageous young minister, who, in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the struggling college at Newtowne. In gratitude the General Court changed the town's name to Cambridge, the university which John Harvard left in order to come to this country. Without his aid it would never have attained its early reputation--it might even have been abandoned. And, in partial recognition of our enormous debt to him, the least that we can do is to attend the exercises this morning...
...interesting to note the geographical division of the honor men. Greater Boston, of course, leads with twenty-four men; New Hampshire has thirteen, far out of proportion to her total enrolment. Nearly all of the men come from the New England states; distant states are practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...
...three men from Pennsylvania two, H. Harte '17 and W. F. Robinson '18, come from Philadelphia. The other Pennsylvania man on the squad is W. B. Felton '19, of Haverford...