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...well represented, this fall, on the several college elevens. She sends to the Harvard 'varsity, Brooks, (captain), Bartol, Peabody, Willard, Fletcher, Holden and Harding; to Yale, Pike, Gill, Morrison, and, possibly, Peters, a former captain and centre rush; to Princeton, Irvine, Cook and Hancock; to Technology, Herrick and Tracy. - Exonian...
...Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library in which were so many valuable Books ancient manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes...
...argument for dress, more hereafter. That concerning the "speech" appears to our provincial judgment both a novel and unwarranted assumption. True, we are not a nation of jeunes premiers, but there have been musical voices in our land and history. The voices of Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, proclaiming the sovereignty of simple manhood had a sweetness and musical cadence which still makes melody upon our People's lips. The tones of these men are the models after which our accents are framed, and their music, I take it, needs not the tawdry finery of affectation...
...spoke of the three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself...
...daily is commenting on the oratory of Mr. Daniel Dougherty, says: "It was his impassioned plea at Chicago, in 1880, that resulted in the nomination of Hancock...