Word: hering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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William Napier Shaw, eminent in the new science of meteorology; welcome delegate from John Harvard's College, and from the ancient university whose sons here the sacred fire of learning to a new England;
Eduard Meyer, classical historian, unsurpassed by living man; doubly welcome here, as delegate from the University of Berlin, and as our fellow-teacher and comrade for the coming year;
Thomas Walker, educator; Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the University of the Cape of Good Hope; not there remote, for, although eight thousand miles away, he has tilled daily the same fields in which his colleagues here have toiled;
Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; we rejoice to greet him here for his devotion to sound scholarship, for his genial Southern sympathy, and as head of a seat of learning to which the country owes much, and under his guidance will owe more;
If, then the college is passing through a transitional period, and is not to be absorbed between the secondary school on the one side and the professional school on the other, we must construct a new solidarity to replace that which is gene. The task before us is to frame...