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...portrait of the late Judge Hoar has been hung on the south wall of Memorial Hall, directly over the serving tables...
...Engineering Society will have lectures by Mr. Clemence Herschel of New York, Professor Crocker of Columbia College, and Col. Prout of the Railroad Gazette. The next meeting of the Republican Club will be addressed by Mr. Goff. Recorder of the City of New York. It is hoped that Senator Hoar and Senator Thurston, the newly elected senator from Nebraska, will consent to address subsequent meetings. The Civil Service Reform Club will have two public addresses. The first one February 25, will be by Mr. Potts, who has been prominent in the reform movement in New York State...
...will of the late Judge E. R. Hoar, Harvard College receives a bequest of $10,000, the income to be applied to the education of meritorious undergraduates of the college from the town of Concord, either immediately after entering or later. If such fail to apply, then the interest is to accumulate until the principal shall reach the sum of $12,000, which shall constitute two scholarships; and whenever no Concord boy shall apply for either, the income for the year may be given by the corporation to another undergraduate...
...Vespers yesterday Rev. F. G. Peabody spoke in memory of Judge Hoar. He said Judge Hoar was one of the most prominent citizens of Massachusetts and one of the best known of Harvard graduates. He was for twenty-four years an Overseer of the College and for the greater part of that time president of the Board. In character he was one of the last of the Puritans, a typical New England man. Like the Puritans, he was simple minded, devoted to his duty, and of a strong Christian faith. His wit was like a New England winter, bracing...
...then take an example from Judge Hoar and follow what is best of these Puritan traits. Be simple, do your duty, and fear God, is good advice...