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...most significant fact in regard to Dr. Holmes's death is that it ends an important epoch in the history of American literature. Dr. Holmes was the last of the remarkable group who have represented the best that there is in the prose and poetry of New England, and whose works will have a lasting value, - Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whittier and Holmes. To these writers there is now no worthy successor. With the death of Dr. Holmes the period of New England's literary preeminence comes to a close...
...that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will be remembered hereafter as the epoch in which the University was first fairly able to take its place among the great seats of learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose, not simply the regulation of more or less unwilling youth in the last years of their schooling, but the nurture, discipline, and inspiration...
...hesitate to admit that there is any real decadence of the "Harvard spirit." It is not strange that the reaction from the old conservative way of thinking should at first go at little too far in the other direction. In later years this decade will probably mark an important epoch in the history of Harvard. We are in the midst of this change and can hardly appreciate its true bearing either to the past...
After their own invasions, the next stirring epoch in the life of the Celts came with the invasions of the Anglo Saxons. The grand figure in these conflicts is that of King Arthur, and the fountain of romance that has found its source in his life seems inexhaustible. Such modern poets as Wadsworth, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, have shown themselves greatly influenced by the history or the legends of this mediaeval hero...
...civilized man. The concentrated knowledge of ages past, the experience of many years, a body of learned men, all are here. They are the fruits of the labor, hope and prayer of generations. No class has had the advantage offered to '95 Now is the most important epoch in your lives. The restrictions of school and home life are here cast off and discretion of judgement and self control cultivated. It is the beginning of one's life work. The confidence in the student felt by the University is shown in the freedom given in the choice of studies...