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...believe that our victories have been due to your introduction and enforcement of correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with...
Sidney Willard, who was professor at Harvard from 1807 to 1831, in a passage cited by Prof. Young, refers to his small Hebrew classes, and "the general impression" that "the value of such learning does not repay the labor and pains necessary to be undergone in its requirement." Willard is cited as having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac...
...Vesper Service held yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel under the preachers to the University could not fail to deeply impress all hearers. It is indeed a privilege to be permitted to listen to such noble and eloquent words as were addressed to the students of the University, while the beautiful music, selected and rendered with exquisite taste, was an inspiring addition to the dignity of the service. The members of the University may almost regard the institution of Vesper Services as an answer to their demand, for in the discussion of Harvard's religious system before the recent changes...
...college library, by permission, its autograph of every graduate living now or hereafter." The graduates met on Commencement day, 1848, and as the preface runs, "having received so much pleasure from the reunion of early friends, and the recollections of pleasures, which time had only served to impress more deeply, decided to do their part to foster the idea of semicentennial reunions." The plan was to divide each page of the book into halves vertically. On the left division the graduates were to sign their names as they left college, and those who were present at the class meeting fifty...
...devastating breath more merciless than that of the flames, the rough and searching blasts of our Boston east winds, found or developed in that young and devoted life the seeds of consumption, and before he had time to impress his character upon the community in which he had cast his lot, death took him off in the latter part of 1638. You know that by a will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told...