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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 and keen, sometimes cutting; his heart like the New England June, soft and beautiful; and his whole character like a New England landscape, rugged...
...testimony in his favor is especially favorable. The Boston Transcript in commenting editorially upon his appointment, says: "Everything seems to indicate that the new librarian has books in his blood, so to speak, and also the executive ability which is needed by the head of a great library like ours. Mr. Putnam's record in connection with the Minneapolis library points to success in Boston...
...three of its members, including the speaker, conceived the idea of an international congress of clergymen of all denominations. When this proposal was made public it received the support both of the Oxford Church influence, consisting of Cardinals Manning, Newman and others, and of the broad church, comprising men like Arnold and Dean Stanley. The very general and active desire for social reform was also a great aid to the movement. The Conference was necessarily held abroad on account of the social prejudices which exist between denominations in England. The chief cause of these divisions is ignorance of one another...
Secondly, in answer to the extravagant language of "Senior," I would like to ask who holds the stronger position, those who confine their interest in athletics to railing at a scrub team for an unfortunate choice of a name, or those who in an unorganized state of a sport organize themselves and take the trouble and expense to secure games with teams, thus giving an impulse to a more advanced growth and organization of this sport in years to come...
Since, however, the interest of persons like "Senior" has not yet proved itself of any worth by the formation of scrub teams, so beneficial to the development of a sport in its early stages, the Oxfords, in so far as they are Harvard men, must by virtue of the college of their origin still bear the burden of representing Harvard in ice polo...