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...helpful member of society. During the fifty-eight years since he first entered Harvard College in 1851 his loyalty and devotion to the University have been unceasing and his benefactions have been numerous. As a member of the Corporation since 1893, he has been a wise and far-sighted counsellor, a valuable associate in the administration of the University. He has given of his wealth as well as of his wisdom and his gifts are of the lasting kind. He has found his happiness in giving, first of all to his country during the days of the Civil...
...ideals; nor did the unpopularity of any policy cause him to abate his ardor in its defense. His intellectual, as his personal, sympathies were wide. His glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished for its delicacy, his taste refined to severity, his judgment clear and sober. His mind was ripened into the temper of a true cosmopolitanism by study of the best books, by knowledge of his own and of other...
...Michael J. Dwyer, assistant district attorney of Suffolk country, will speak on "William Shakespeare, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law," at a smoker of the St. Paul's Catholic Club at the Parochial School Hall, on Mt, Auburn street, at 7.30 o'clock this evening. The smoker will be open to all members of the University...
George Foster Peabody, "Southerner by birth, New York banker and financier by profession, wise counsellor and disinterested worker on behalf of education in the southern states...
...hearty acceptance of every proposition for the improvement and better use of the collections under his charge. For twenty of the most important years in the intellectual history of the University, Mr. Winsor thus co-operated with the teaching body now incorporated in this Faculty as their fellow-laborer, counsellor and friend. For no small proportion of the ripening fruit of those years they and the University are now indebted...