Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ranging in age from 19 to 28, the guides form a seemingly intellectual body. Most of them carried on graduate work during the summer. Two will receive Ph.D's in Fine Arts this year; another joins the faculty this fall. One has been appointed instructor in econofies, and another will travel to Cuba after the celebration to take up a teaching position...
Soon the reading of the roll of classes, an affecting ceremony to be sure, but rather pompous and tiresome methought. On to the Meeting House, in great procession, at the head of it all and followed by a fine band of music. Lord, how we did marvel to see the church so crowded, the galleries filled with the beauteous ladies of the Commonwealth. Came then events of no great importance until the rendering of a fine ode by a gentleman from Charleston, South Carolina. The first line was, "Fair Harvard, thy sons to thy jubilee throng," but the remainder...
...precedings. My heart bubbled to see the spaicous tent, the garlands, the festoons. Clatter of plates and glasses formed a song for the celebration. Soon speeches by Governor Edw. Everett, and then toast after toast until all our heads were swimming merrily in the good refreshment of the college. Fine words and much sense from Mr. Webster who expounded the glories of our Constitution. Now more toasts to cities and states, until Mr. Saltonstall, Mayor of Salem and descendant of "that most excellent knight," spoke for his town. Now many songs, the whole assembly joining in the singing of them...
Extremely rare, as there are only four or five known, is the trestle table, but probably of more interest to Harvard men is the oak cupboard which has been used by all Presidents of the College since 1681. There are also some fine cane chairs and two excellent highboys. Another article of interest is a stand-up desk which was used by the Merrills of two generations and upon which their names, written in ink upon the inside, are still faintly visible...
...rarest of the items to be seen. The two earliest known ones are being shown: the Burgis view is the only version in the first state, and is extremely valuable, and the Paul Revere prospect, said to be the only copy in a private collection. Revere also contributed several fine pieces of silverware. While few people realized it, one of Paul Revere's biggest sources of income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine set, specially made by Revere, and it is to these, which weighed one pound...