Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gentlemen and my very kind friends:- I feel not only honored but deeply moved by the letter you have been good enough to write me. During my long service in the University, my relations with the students were always agreeable, not seldom fruitful, to me, and in some good measure, I trust, to my pupils also. But in my experience as a teacher nothing ever gave me such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification...
...such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that I am warranted in denying a petition which, under other circumstances, I should receive as a command, and in declining a duty to which, at best I could give but half of even what strength is left...
...seems hardly possible that any one who has been in Harvard College three months should show so little the effect of its reforming influence as to feel no shame at such a display of native boorishness. I sincerely hope the Board of Directors will exert their authority and compel the fellow to move whether he is willing...
...with the various candidates for the eight. From several sources the fact has come to our ears that dissatisfaction is prevalent among members of the class who are cognizant of the facts. Although some of this dissatisfaction may be justly ascribed to the disappointment of disgruntled candidates, still we feel sure that a warning will not be out of place. Men upon whose shoulders rests so much responsibility cannot be too careful in their actions. The captain should shun any form of partiality. More than one race has been lost by an injudicious selection...
...registration. The medical school is the only one of any importance which shows a falling off and there the attendance has diminished from 271 to 263. The graduate department has gained 26 students, making the total number 96, and the alumni and friends of Harvard have reason to feel proud of the constantly augmenting number of men who come from the smaller colleges to take a post-graduate course here...