Word: live
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feel greatly privileged in having been able to see the University of Cambridge in America, of which both you and we are justly proud. The memory of our visit to Harvard will ever live in our minds, and we shall go back to the old country with a sympathy and reverence for the Cambridge of America because both you and we love and owe so much to the Cambridge of England...
...class of 1890 desire to express their grief at the loss of their classmate, E. F. Rogers. He was known, as an undergraduate, to a large number of men who respected him for his real ability and for the live interest he took in all class and college affairs. Those who knew him more intimately recognized in him a genuineness and unselfishness to which his friends can bear sincere witness. His graduate work was characterized by a thoroughgoing patience and persistence which earned for him high academic distinction. In what he had accomplished he honored his class, which learned with...
...peculiar policy of the institution is liberty, and its history shows how continuous has been this aim. We value men here for what they are, and you will never again live in such a democracy as exists among the students and officers of this University...
Professor Peabody chose for his text: "Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times." He said in part: The period just before us is the greatest period in the history of the world. The man who is to live during the next twenty-five years is to see greater achievements in thought than we have yet seen. Before this future stands the young man setting himself to the task of discerning the signs of the times...
...While the memory of that life hovers about this place, the men of Harvard will have an inspiration to live up to their highest visions...