Word: fame
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...affairs, news from the classes, and book reviews, one may find here topics ranging from the Law School Library and the efficient services of the Appointments Bureau to the ten thousand guinea pigs which are quartered in Lawrence Hall and have all unwittingly contributed much to science and the fame of Harvard. A valuable article on Charles Chauncey makes clear that aristocracy as well as democracy presided over the inception of the University, and will doubtless attract more visitors than before to the portrait of Harvard's second President in Memorial Hall...
Under these favorable circumstances he resolved to break with the church, family and country and come to New England. That one great resolve is the sole basis of his fame. His life here was short and broken; he was for a few months minister of a church in Charles- town, and then, worn out in body, he died at the early...
...fame so deathless? Because in youth he made one high resolve and carried it out. He came to this country in search of liberty of thought, and of speech. By that act he tied his name to the great love that lives in the human heart, the love of freedom. And when he came to die he started the great custom of giving his estate for the advancement of education. A stream of benefactions has followed that first gift of the sick young minister, a stream that is characteristic of the American belief in education. And a host of young...
That fights for Harvard's fame...
Long live--her glorious fame! (Everybody...