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...George Daniel Olds. Not until the June Commencement will such a great day come again to town. Calvin Coolidge, '95, onetime pupil of President Olds, was among the eminent absent; but the eminent present were many. In the procession, on the platform: President Lowell of Harvard; President Garfield of Williams (Amherst's "mother" college) ; Presidents Neilson of Smith, Woolley of Mount Holyoke, Lewis of Massachusetts Agricultural College (all neighbors of Amherst) ; Dean Bouton of the College of Arts and Pure Science, New York University; U. S. Attorney General Stone; U. S. Senator-elect Gillett of Massachusetts; Governor...
...policy of attracting students from the West? A landslide for Coolidge might indicate just this. How radical the radical younger generation really is the La Follette and Foster showings will make apparent when compared with national returns. Finally, how many friends for Davis the utterance of President Eliot, President Garfield of Williams and other educators have made should be tangibly shown by the size of the Democratic vote...
...year with John Coolidge, son of President Calvin Coolidge, one of 210 freshmen with a few words from Acting President and President-elect George D. Olds, concerning changes in Amherst's faculty, curriculum, landscape. At Williamstown, Mass., the 131st year of Williams College began when President Harry A. Garfield opened a service in Thompson Memorial Chapel, reminded his hearers that each of them was a responsible part of the collegiate whole. At South Hadley, Mass., President Mary E. Woolley launched Mount Holyoke College upon its 87th year by ruminating upon womankind's increasing importance in the world...
...dreamt; while the man to whom he had sold his mansion found diamonds in the stream that watered the garden, thus discovering the famed mines of the Golconda. Taking the thread of this tale, Dr. Conwell elaborated it with over 30 minor anecdotes. He quoted Bailey, the Bible, Garfield, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson. In his delivery, he incorporated every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage. He larded his sentences with such aphorisms...
...trace the progress of this malignant disease, which threatens the very foundation of Constitutional Government, we need only survey the wide chasm which separates Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior in Garfield's Cabinet, from Albert B. Fall, Harry M. Daugherty and others of intimate and daily association with this Administration...