Word: home
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman just arrived from his distant home first passes through the college gate, he reads upon the wall a legend which strikes a new note in his life...
...Here in the forest-grown uncultivated lands, English men exiled from home, In the sixteen hundred and thirty-sixth year after Christ's birth, In the sixth year after bringing their colony hither, Thinking that before all else they ought to cultivate wisdom, Founded by act of the people a school, And dedicated to Christ and the church this their foundation, Which being increased by the bounty of John Harvard and by lovers of learning here and abroad continually helped and finally entrusted to the loyal care of its children, From a small beginning brought to a mightier growth...
...understand this as an appeal for more ministers - not that; I simply want to say that when you leave college and get to work in your calling and settle in your home, there will be various other interests that will claim you - clubs, professional and social, and political duties; but there will be one institution in the town that has somehow outlived all others, an institution that has sustained the ideal of the Christian family, that encourages education, inspires character, upholds the brotherhood of man, and has the charm of charity - the Christian church. It needs you - your personal interest...
...community has given the college man the privileges in which he glories; the college man rejoices in the opportunity to serve the community. Public spirit finds a home in the college...
...President and Mrs. Eliot at home to all graduates and officers of the University and friends accompanying them, and to members of all classes graduating this year and friends accompanying them...