Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foundations of the present universities, but these centres of learning had but little permanence. The best scholars did not long remain in one place, but became travelling teachers. We must trace then, how these men began to co-operate in the prosecution of their studies, and how thereby they formed educational centres. In the middle ages there was, in truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries, and the orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations...
Cambridge was modeled on the form of Oxford as that was on Paris. Cambridge was always more of a Protestant university than Oxford. During the days of the Reformation the students were strenuous in their defense of Queen Elizabeth. At the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Emmanuel College, which occurred a few years ago a certain professor showed a ring given by Elizabeth to one of his ancestors who had been a professor at Emmanuel, in appreciation of the old Englishman's devotion to the cause of Protestantism. [Applause.] Although Cambridge always keeps its doors open...
...earliest presidents? And what did the saintly grace of the great Apostle to the Indians, John Eliot, give to our Massachusetts history, for without him we should have lost that singular example of a man who may be said to have created a language, certainly in its literary form, of which the monument of his patience and erudition, and the proof of how a language may die, stands to-day in the score copies or more which have come down to us of the Indian Bible. What would the first gathering of the church here in Cambridge have been without...
...Sleeper, '89, and Mr. Everett, '89, aided by past and present members of the Harvard Glee Club, for some time past have been engaged in compiling the latest songs of Harvard. To-day their work will be presented to the public in the form of a book of one hundred pages which, it is by no means an exaggeration to say, is unique among collections of college song, both for the artistic taste displayed and for the thoroughness of the work done. The book is bound in the university colors and will ornament any home. As the most recent compilation...
...route will be as previously published. The class of '87 will form on Broadway side of Memorial Delta. '88 on Kirkland Street, side of Memorial Delta with head at Cambridge Street. '89 in front of Gymnasium, with head at Cambridge Street. '90 on the street forming west side of the yard, with head at Cambridge Street. Law school will form in Holmes Place, with head at Cambridge Street...