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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interests of the nation be equal to your highest wishes! And after you shall have long rejoiced in the prosperity and glory of your country, may you receive the approbation of Him who ruleth among the nations.' Thus Joseph Willard, President of the University in 1789. to George Washington, first President of the United States...
WHEN I came here first I was furnished by my father with a list of his friends in Cambridge, on whom he wished me to call. Of course I did not look on these calls with enthusiasm; but I decided that I would visit one a month, - there were nine of them, - and so have it over by the annuals...
...arranged them in alphabetical order, and went to Mr. Archibald's first. He had been my father's school-teacher...
...protested, but it was of no avail. The book was forced upon me, and I was compelled to stumble through first the scanning and then the translation of an ode or two. Mr. Archibald held his watch open in his hand...
...began with my ode. It was that - pretty-dialogue between Lydia and her lover; "The Reconciliation," I have heard it called. I got through the first verses very well for an extempore. Then I came...