Word: founder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this University were important enough to entitle him, in the opinion of his contemporaries, to give his name to the institution of which we are all proud to form a part. With general support the demonstration this evening will show how we value the timely aid which our virtual founder gave to the struggling College...
...Hall on the evening of November 26 is open to all Harvard men--undergraduates and members of the professional schools as well as graduates and officers of the whole University. The dinner will be a great family gathering of the sons of Harvard to celebrate the birthday of our Founder...
...communication printed this morning ridicules the idea of a bonfire as a part of the John Harvard anniversary celebration. With clear and concise logic he shows the folly of adapting a method of rejoicing over athletic victories to an occasion so sacred as the birth of our founder. We understand that some men may feel above such a childish display of animal spirits, but we scan the communication in vain to find an adequate alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity of the anniversary, but this the Faculty...
...William R. George, the founder of the George Junior Republic at Freeville, New York, will lecture on the "George Junior Republic" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...field free for the present biographer; and, despite Mr. Shelley's careful gleaning, we have here still but a slender sheaf of facts. To make a volume of some three hundred pages it has been necessary to eke it out with much matter descriptive of times of our founder, and the places in which he lived, and to indulge freely in speculation. The book might, indeed, be fairly called, "A Probable Biography of a Possible John Harvard...