Word: godly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hervard equally to be devided between them In witness whereof I have unto every sheete being seaven in number put to my hand and have sealed the same this second daye of Julie in the eleaventh yeare of the reigne of our Souaigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. Annoq Dni 1635. The marke...
...with some pleasant and learned professor, with, perhaps, a shade of innocent corner flirtation with lively proctors and studious tutors. How changed from that first class day when nearly a quarter of a millenium ago the first class of Harvard graduated and took their leave in a "sober and God-fearing fashion." Those were the strong and sturdy days when Fair Harvard was known as "Charles H's wooden college." when at commencement "Ye General Court of ye Massachusetts Colony did sit down at meat with ye lads to encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled...
...institution of equal importance with the stately and scholastic day of gowns,- commencement. The General Court no longer feast beneath the classic shades, they have given place to their fair daughters. Nor is it upon the "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples" that the daughters feast. The "sober and God-fearing fashion" has passed into a round of jollity that shames the sober bachelor graduates who wander about aimlessly seeking they know not what, and territies papa and mamma in their watch-towers of observation with its desperate flirtation...
...class day comes to an end, and the class, doffing its new tile, goes out into the world to take its stand by the side of those who have gone before. It goes surrounded by all the memories and traditions of the college, and cheered with the hearty "God-speed" of those who remain behind...
...Board, however, resented this innovation as an encroachment upon their prerogatives, and immediately announced publicly that the Facultas had authority in the premises, and that an omen, presumably sent by Custom, a tutelary god of the Harvardians, had been interpreted as signifying the downfall of the city, if such a timehonored statute were repealed. Of the events that followed, there are many and conflicting accounts. Some say, that an amicable compromise was effected; others, among them Crimsonius, a well-known historian of that time, relate that upon the Facultas refusing to accede to the Board's demands, two partisan factions...