Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...School in '75, he was university lecturer on American History from 1876-79. From that time he has been actively engaged in public life. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1880-81, chairman of the State Republican Committee in 1883, and a representative to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses. He was one of the leaders of the majority in the last House where he came into prominence as the chief promoter of a bill to provide for federal control of federal elections. He is an enthusiastic supporter of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt in his Civil...
...sound. As a matter of course, not only the seniors would sing it, but the other classes and the graduates would rise and join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song, when it is given as it should be, to stir one's pulses...
...subject of the last lecture in his course, Cambridge. After a short description of the situation of Cambridge, at the junction of the three roads built by the Romans, Professor Cooke passed on to the University itself. While a few years ago Harvard celebrated her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1884 Professor Cooke received an invitation to the six hundredth anniversary of Peter's College, where the poet Gray lived for a time...
...could exemplify to us new ideas, and give us a glimpse of methods which our independence or sell-conceit, whichever we may choose to call it, may not permit us to adopt entirely but which cannot fail to improve our own by example or comparison. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1886, gave Harvard men the opportunity to have a long series of lectures by the delegate of Rome, Professor Rodolfo Lanciani. Smce then Professor Drummond has been the only foreign University man to visit us and we therefore greet such lectures as that of Mr. Moulton with additional...
...publication of the quinquennial catalogue in English will commend itself to everyone as a great improvement. For some years the tendency to leave the old formality of Latin where it still survives has been marked. When it was decided to hold the evercises of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Auniversary in English, many hoped that Latin had been finally abandoned as an official language. It was retained, however, at the next Commencement exercises. Now it has lost one of its chief strongholds in the quinquennial catalogue, and to replace it by English in the Commencement exercises would be a consistent...