Word: great
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rising Sun from Baron Takahira. The presentation of the decoration was made privately, only a few friends being present. As the President entered the room, the Japanese envoy made the following speech, which President Eliot read at the dinner: "The Emperor, my august sovereign, fully appreciative of the great services you have rendered for the welfare of human life as one of the foremost educators of the age, and for the making of many useful men of Japan who have come here to study at Harvard University during the forty years of your presidency over that institution, thus largely contributing...
...Richard Olney L.'58 was next called upon to say a few words. Mr. Olney spoke of the treaties which Great Britain and the United States passed during the second Cleveland administration, though at the time much criticized, introducing Japan on an equality with all other countries. The one grievance which he found with Japan was that its military prowess, both on land and sea, is used as a reason, whether true or false, for the United States keeping up large war expenditures. "Japan," he said, "lies in the East and does not interfere with America. Both are island powers...
...MORNING PRAYERS. Rev. G. A. Gordon, D.D. Topic: "Great Prayers." Appleton Chapel...
...most potent. Although perhaps there would have been no abolition if Harvard had continually won the intercollegiate championship, the failure to win was due to the lack of support which was the primary cause of the game's forced withdrawal. There was no reason to believe that any great interest would be shown in the future whether the team won or lost, and it was considered best to remove it entirely...
...order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black raven" flapping slowly across the sky in Mr. Schenck's closing paragraph, he should take W. C. G. 's mild moralizing upon "The Dilletante" as an antidote...