Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universities are among the most permanent of human institutions; they outlast particular forms of government and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendant vitality Its charter, granted in 1650, is in force to-day in every line, having survived in perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides...
...Music of Bach, Handel, and Beetho-even, bn the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sanders Theatre...
...field making a touch-down, from which Woodman kicked a goal. The ball soon got into Harvard's hands again, and Faulkner made a pretty rush, gaining about twenty-five yards, By a succession of short runs the ball was forced right down to Wesleyan's goal, Fletcher even getting it to the goal-post; but he could not quite get over the line, and four downs gave Wesleyan the ball. Wesleyan got the ball away from this dangerous place by a short run, and before anything more could be done, time was called, with the score standing...
...fair way to do it. Aubrey tells us he was in the habit of making a yearly sojourn among his old neighbors at Stratford, and we know that he was buying land there, adding to his acres almost with every visit, raising crops as an amateur farmer, and even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford...
Yesterday was, however, especially set aside for the members of the Law School, and the oration delivered to them by the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Sanders Theatre, fulfilled in every way all that even the most exacting could expect of one of Harvard's most distinguished sons. The dinner tendered the graduates of the Law School by its present members brought back many pleasant reminiscences of the past, when all were once plunged in the mysteries of Blacks' one and Kent. Yet the first day, pleasant as it was, has but paved the way for the still more...