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...order to make the Union more efficient than ever before and to increase its potent influence in bringing together all members of the University, the present governing board is bending every energy toward making membership in this democratic institution most alluring. In the words of its founder, the Union is "a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal--a house bearing no name forever except that of our University." It is to this end--"to make the house open to all Harvard men and in which they all stand equal"--that...
...purpose of this foundation is to establish, at the oldest University of America, a monument to the West and to its importance both past, present and future in shaping the character and the destinies of this country. If the Foundation fulfils the conception of the founder and of the Commission, it will aid in collecting material which will in the future make possible adequate study of the fulfilment of the great faith of the East in the West from the early decades of the nineteenth century on; and it will be a place where all students of American History will...
Winthrop Wetherbee '87, of Boston, will act as toastmaster and the following men will speak: Professor W.A. Neilson '96, of the department of English; W.R. Thayer '81, an editor of the Graduates' Magazine; W.G. Peckham '67, the founder of the Advocate; C.S. Dazey '81, a prominent dramatist; A.S. Pier '95, editor of the Youths' Companion; G.W. Gray '12, of Houston, Tex.; and H.R. Peterson '13, of Barnstable...
...subject for the year is the second of the series of four subjects prescribed by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley, in 1750, namely: "The confirmation, illustration, and improvement of the great articles of the Christian Religion properly so-called or the revelation which Jesus Christ the Son of God was pleased to make, first by himself, and afterwards by his holy Apostles, to his church and the world for their salvation...
...distinguished as Arthur Foote '74, G. A. Burdett '81 and F. S. Converse '93. Among critics of wide repute there are seven Harvard men; among teachers, six; among executants, eleven; and among patrons of musical progress, eight, at the head of whom stands Henry Lee Higginson '82, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...