Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President.--Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, 191 Commonwealth avenue, Boston...
...question of an amendment of the constitution of the commonwealth alleging women to vote will also be voted at on today...
...likely to be reversed. It is one of the ironies of literature that this son of a poet, inheriting so much that was finest in the old New England culture, a pupil of Emerson, trained at Harvard, toiling gallantly in a great profession, a public-spirited citizen of a commonwealth which he served nobly and without much tangible reward, should be chiefly remembered by his record of an enforced holiday in his boyhood--by what he himself called a 'parenthesis' in his life...
...true that he won neither great wealth nor high office, and that in his own commonwealth he saw many win both who were in no way superior to him in ability or character, like his arch-enemy Benjamin F. Butler, but 'the wise years decide.' Weighed in the true scales could any fortune, however large, or any office, however high, could anything that he won for himself outbalance the unselfish service which he rendered to others? Is self-sacrifice failure? Shall we measure success by what a man gets, or by what he gives? Shall we forget the immortal words...
...Lincoln, A. M., Sever 23; P. M., 2000 Commonwealth...