Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States. Colonel Hallowell closed his speech, which was very witty and jolly, by reading a telegram from President Roosevelt '81, regretting that he could not be present at the dinner. The crowd then cheered the President, and drank his health, singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...received the degree of D.D. from Yale and received the same degree from Harvard in 1884 and from Princeton in 1896. The degree of Litt.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Dublin in 1892. He has been a Fellow of Harvard University since 1877, and was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...James Walker, subsequently President of the College, who was a deeply religious man of reserved, strong character, great force of intellect and most impressive presence, and possessing a rare gift of twinkling humor which enabled him to enter deeply into the lives of all the students. Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, just rising to fame, was then an instructor, whom the students loved as a man of great sweetness of nature, of most universal culture, and a most thorough gentleman. Josiah Quincy, the President of the College, was a man of the greatest public gifts. He was remarkably eloquent...
...history of the world, he said, is the history of the broadening of the sense of man's personal responsibility to his fellow beings. From the time of the savage, the world has come to the time when a nation will fight for an oppressed people without the least thought of gain; and will send its ship laden with grain to a starving nation, from whom it has not received, and cannot receive, the least return. All the teachings of Jesus Christ centre about this vital principle of service. The aim of His life was ministering, not being ministered unto...
...college men, more than to any others, comes the call to help their benighted fellow men through missionary work, because to them the greatest opportunities have been given, and because they are the best fitted by their learning, culture and ability, to meet the different problems which face the missionary...