Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers, coopers, grocers and clothworkers - the Harvard trades - on the roll of its students today. May no restrictive policy or spirit ever separate the university which bears John Harvard's name from that laborious, frugal, self-respecting part of the community to which...