Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Joseph H. Choate, LL.B., '54, of New York, Frank W. Hackett '61, of Washington, and Gustavus H. Wald, LL.B., '75, of Cincinnati, and others will speak. An unusually large attendance is expected, and it is hoped that every past member of the school, even if he cannot be present at the celebration, will show his sympathy for Harvard's great work in legal education by joining the association before that date...
...past year has proved no exception to the continued success which has attended the Cooperative Society since its establishment, inasmuch as the increase in the amount of business and in membership has been even greater than that of last year. The membership this year is 1909, as against 1681 last year and 1492 the year before...
There is often a tendency noticed to speak slightingly and even contemptuously of the wealthy classes at Harvard, merely because they are wealthy while other equally worthy men are not. In a Harvard man particularly, such contempt is scarcely becoming. Throughout the history of the college, its steady development in all directions has in large part been made possible by the benefactions of just such wealthy men. Many of our University buildings bear the names of their wealthy donors; our athletic fields have been gifts to the University; our highest professional chairs have not seldom been established by the liberality...
...more glad to take this line today because their is growing a feeling among many, even cultivated people, that a university can be created without a history, that large funds and wise management may accomplish for a university in a few years all that centuries of wise management can do. That there is an element of truth in this, we all agree. That certain studies and scientific researches are not dependent upon historic surroundings and a rich atmosphere of culture is true. But if a university has for its work also the development of the whole man, growth in culture...
...What, then, the church needs, even if the criticism be only partially true, is the loyalty and devotion of men of culture - men who, by refinement, will keep the church from Philistianism, by openness of mind will save her from narrowness, and by singleness of purpose will keep her true to her high aims...