Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...route of the procession on Anniversary Day: Forming in front of the gymnasium, it will march to Quincy St., thence to Harvard, to Prospect, to Central Square, then up Main Street to the yard; round the yard, up Brattle Street to Craigie, to Concord Avenue and the common; thence across North Avenue to Holmes Field...
...classes of the Alumni were again summoned, and solemn pauses again succeeded, until Mr. Emery walked down the aisle alone, and was greeted by testimonies of applause from his younger brethren. On leaving the church, the procession, including more than fifteen hundred individuals, proceeded to the left across the Common, and then, turning to the right, passed in front of the College edifices. By this arrangement, the graduates of the various classes passed in review before each other. After passing Dane Hall, the procession turned to the left, proceeded through Harvard street, in front of the President's house...
...negation, or he repels when he means to appeal, - or again, he has not learned the value of repose, and he keeps his hands and head going till you are worn out with the very sight of his ineffectual labor to have you seize what he says. These are common faults and are met with constantly, and they are faults that with a little patient practice under competent guidance could have been avoided. Then there are the flagrant errors in pronunciation that we hear on all sides. Indeed, it is said on good authority that President Eliot and George William...
...attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond expectation, but we should not omit to guard against the evils which it, in common with every good thing, may bring with it a little conservative spirit, may fitly be preached to the liberalism and freedom...
...offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard students belong to wealthy families, and that they look upon politics as something beneath them. This is not true. Nineteen-twentieths of the students in Harvard must earn their own living after they leave the college. If they look askance upon politics...