Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cheaper edition of "Student Life at Harvard" has been issued. The cover is ornamented by three sketches from the pencil of Mr. F. G. Atwood...
...BRETHREN. - We are accustomed at our festival to renew to each other our expressions of mutual regard, and to renew also our recollection of the time when in these halls we were trained for the duties of active life. We welcome cordially the body of young men who this day have been added to our numbers, in the hopes that they, in their turn, will uphold the ancient name and fame of the University, will show that it has a right to exist in the men whom it produces from year to year. As arms are for those...
...memory of those who gave their lives for the Union, and recall him who was our marshal the first time that we came here, who was as truly a martyr of the war as if he had fallen on the field; though permitted a few years of painful life, yet was very vigorous, courageous, and faithful in spirit. You remember well the slender figure, the expressive countenance, and manly spirit of Bartlett. [Great applause and three hearty cheers for Bartlett.] You recall, I doubt not all of you who were here on that day, the words that he uttered...
...administration which made it, and will do honor to the country. I mean Professor Lowell of Harvard University. Him I call upon to respond to the toast: 'The highest use of learning is one of the most potent of the agencies to produce the highest order of public life...
...very poor; there were few mediocre men." The editor's chair is not the speaker's stand, or we should be tempted into speaking perhaps with unbecoming warmth of our departed friends' many excellences. But we cannot but remember that it was the class which threw so much life into some of the highest literary courses in college. If we remember rightly, Greek 9 (AEschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Pindar) in Seventy-six's hands seemed on its last legs until Seventy-seven raised it again into one of the most successful, even in a numerical point of view...