Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give you, brethren, our first sentiment: Our alma mater - In grateful memory of her instructions, her sons come to-day by thousands to do her honor...
...striking fact that during the ten years or so following the coming of Winthrop, the two great English Universities sent into this wilderness fully a hundred of their best men, to strengthen the purpose and tone the spirit of the new settlement. It is not too much to say that in the history of colonization, ancient or modern, never before and never again has learning ever entered so deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population...
...latter part of 1638. You know that by a will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told us he had ever seen, but whose provisions have come down to us, in the grateful comment of his friends and of those of the college. And so the figure of John Harvard rises before us to-day, doubly sacred, very likely for the scant knowledge which we have of him, lofty and august in the ideal which he represents...
...School by its present members brought back many pleasant reminiscences of the past, when all were once plunged in the mysteries of Blacks' one and Kent. Yet the first day, pleasant as it was, has but paved the way for the still more imposing ceremonies to come...
...four memorial editions of the CRIMSON will be of lasting interest to every undergraduate of the college as well as to every graduate. Haec olim meminisse juvebit, when in future years the old files come to hand, and the memories of the good times "when we were boys together at Harvard," are brought to mind by the celebration of the 300th anniversary. Since many College men desire to send away to friends an account of "these festival rites," what could be more fitting than to send the report as written and published by undergraduates who are themselves partakers...