Word: founder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...competition for these prizes is open to all. It is nevertheless the tradition of the Society that the founder of these prizes intended them to be more in the nature of encouragement to young men in the field than as rewards for the work of more mature investigators...
...before John Harvard's statue in Memorial Hall Delta and the address by Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00, in Appleton Chapel. When the Memorial Society and other members of the University had assembled in the Delta, W. D. Canaday '17 and R. N. Cram '17 placed wreaths upon the founder's statue and J. W. D. Seymour '17 delivered the address. Turning toward the statue; he told of the debt we owe to John Harvard in the following words...
This morning, to commemorate the 309th anniversary of his birth, the Memorial Society will hold its annual exercises in the delta in honor of John Harvard, founder of the University. As Dr. Fitch said on Sunday, to judge from the attendance one would hardly realize that this was a University function. But it ought to be one of the first duties of every community to honor its founder in an appropriate...
...members of the University are invited to join the Memorial Society in doing honor to the founder of the University in the Delta near Memorial Hall tomorrow morning at 8.30 o'clock. The Society will gather before John Harvard's statue at that time, and J. W. D. Seymour '17, in a short address, will speak on our debt to the founder and loyalty to the College. The statue will be decorated with laurel wreaths for the occasion and the exercises will be closed with the singing of "Fair Harvard." The meeting will then adjourn to Appleton Chapel, where...
...endowment fund of that institution so that it may proceed at once with important undertakings, illustrates, among other things, the marvellous advance that has taken place in the conception of the mission and scope of higher education since the days of John Harvard and Eli Yale. The college founder or president who used to think in terms of thousands is now thinking in terms of millions and tens of millions. Christian Science Monitor...