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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writer that people from a distance would suffer great hardship from an extension of time. In fact I believe just the opposite; people can not and will not come here from a distance to spend a single day. This opinion is thoroughly impressed upon those of us who live outside of Massachusetts. There must be entertainment extending over several days to bring people three hundred miles...
...large as in past years. The danger which attaches to so large a gathering within so small a space has been pointed out already; and the inconvenience of it is patent. With the sentiment-"the tree has been used so many years," I have no sympathy. I would not live in an old building, on that account, if I could live in a new one, with its numerous conveniences. Harvard has outgrown many things, and she can well outgrow some more. A tree exercise, with plenty of room for every one, would be a glorious innovation...
...members of the graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make little difference...
...live up to the reputation given us by a prominent Western man who in comparing Harvard with some other Eastern university remarked: "If you send your son to this college," referring to the other university, "you make a man of him. If you send him to Harvard you make that man a gentleman...
Rice and indigo-the main products-largely determined the social life of the colony. The cultivation of the former being especially unhealthy, and negroes being cheap, it became more profitable to work the slaves to their utmost capacity while they lived. This did much to keep the slaves in a state of savagery, and the people lived in constant dread of negro revolts. Accordingly none of the planters lived on their estates, but left them to the management of overseers, while they went to live in Charleston, where a brilliant society existed...