Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plans for the clubhouse of the Harvard Club of Boston, whose construction was proposed in the fall, have taken on a more definite shape. After careful consideration, the corner of Commonwealth and Massachusetts avenues has been chosen as the sight. The entire space will not be occupied, plenty of room being left for future addition...
...Moreover, what is perhaps quite as serious, the Corporation cannot make Commencement Day a state celebration by freely inviting state and city dignitaries and representatives of the schools. Harvard, it must not be forgotten, stands in close though somewhat indefinite relations to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and the annual festival of the University should be a day for marking and strengthening the bond. This happy function of Commencement must be almost wholly neglected while the Commencement Exercises continue in Sanders Theatre...
Pres.--Major H. L. Higginson '55, 191 Commonwealth...
...letters, Mr. Bryce is very well known in America. His great work "The American Commonwealth," which appeared in 1888, was the first in which the institutions of the United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point of view of a historian and a constitutional lawyer. After a visit to South Africa in 1897, he published a volume of "Impressions" of that country, which carried great weight when the Boer War was being discussed. In his early life he was a notable mountain-climber, ascending Mount Ararat in 1876; and, later, was author of a book on mountain climbing...
...Bryce, an adopted son of Harvard, the CRIMSON offers on the part of the undergraduates a hearth welcome. Even though we may not have all seen him before, many of us feel that we have come to know him s we have read through the pages of his "American Commonwealth." Because we feel that he understands us as a nation better than all but a very few of our own countrymen, we realize what an opportunity it is to hear him this evening upon our national problems of forty years ago and today...