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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemen, it is not alone these considerations which move me to express my gratitude for the honor which you have done me. I have had the extreme honor to have been admitted to the acquaintanceship of some of your most distinguished men, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Holmes. In my own country I have had even the greater honor of receiving under my roof such men as Prescott, Hawthorne, and Motley. And when I consider that through your grace I have been domiciled, so to speak, within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where...
...letter in the last Advocate on the proposed reduction of the marks obtained at the Anticipatory Examination in Rhetoric did not seem to me to express strongly enough the feeling in regard to this matter...
...visitors with enthusiastic cheers. Such an evidence of the good-feeling which exists between Princeton and Harvard is very gratifying, and we feel sure that Harvard men will be ready to reciprocate these attentions on the first visit of the Princeton Nine to Cambridge. We know we are expressing the sincere feelings of our Nine and of the College, when we express our hearty thanks to Princeton for their courtesy, which always makes our visits there thoroughly enjoyable...
...there was a time when I prided myself upon my knowledge of Chemistry, and gave every spare moment to the science. "Sed tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Excuse the quotation; only the dead languages can express my feelings. Before I came to Harvard I studied a couple of years in a Western college, and there I grew interested in Chemistry. My teacher was a man of many subjects, who might be classed as a Professor Intelligentiae Generalis. He taught Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, Botany, Geology, and Greek, besides occasionally some other branches when either of the other two professors...
...teachers, human or divine; all that is best in the creeds of all churches, whatever their name, but allows no lines of circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...