Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...legacy which we have reason to hope Harvard will receive by the generous gift of the late Edward Price Greenleaf, of Boston, calls forth the deepest gratitude from every friend of Harvard. It is too early to make any comment until definite information with regard to the bequest can be obtained. But, we may all hope that the report is not exaggerated, especially when we think what unestimable benefits can be procured by such a bequest. The erection of a new dormitory alone ought to immortalize the generous donor. However, it will be well to delay further comment until...
...reigns at Harvard, and it was at once decided that the matter was far too serious to be settled by a secretary of arrangements. President Eliot took it in hand, and he wrote to Dr. McCosh in a dual capacity as President of Harvard University and as an intimate friend...
...understand, already joined several. From his last engagement he sought his room with one pantaloon leg and his shoes and stockings alone remaining of the garments he had on when 'he went in,' but fortunately was able to borrow a coat of a friend to gird about his loins...
...applause] whose presence alone was enough to give dignity and grandeur to any occasion. Nor must I omit to allude to the fact that among those speakers was that accomplished and eminent scholar and orator, Hugh Wesley Green, who, only six years later died at the home of his friend, George Pickering, of Boston, having visited Boston as secretary of state of the United States...
...process by which out of the confused and tumultuous experiences of countless men, there issues as sure as we gaze upon their one great image which is strangely at once the aggregate of embodiment of them and also something greater than them all, their protector and muse, their teacher, friend and mother. It is out of the infinite human experience and pathos of this place; it is out of this, in which these buildings and these grounds have been the scenes of so much human life for these 250 years of struggles and hopes and fears and aspirations, of doubts...