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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greetings extended to him. Never in the history of Cambridge has any single event brought together such eminent men leaders in statesmanship, oratory, learning and science, as those who assembled last Monday at the alumni dinner held at Memorial Hall. That many of the most prominent there look to Harvard as their Alma Mater, is a record of which Harvard is proud, and justly...
...vivacity and emotion, as has never been seen before in Cambridge? Add to this the pathos of those memories and in truth to day would be the history of Harvard for half a century or more, if we could but have omniscience and overhear all the talk, interpret every look and expose all the passion of feeling which will surround us throughout...
...despair, or temptations and of ecstacies; and it is out of all this hovering like a great crowd rising like a great exhalation from over the long history of Harvard College and its generations of men, that slowly, mysteriously, but at last very clearly there shapes itself as we look, as the great outcome of the whole, a majestic being which we call the college, with human features and capacities, with eyes to smile or frown on us, with a heart to love us, with a will to rule us and to fix standards for our life...
Therefore it is that more than most institutions our university has lived under greater forces and for greater ends than she has habitually acknowledged to herself. Therefore, it is that in her commemorative season, our university is specially bound to look deep into her own life, to look broadly across her own history, and to see with unhesitating eyes what diviner significance than she has known has been in her. If when she only said to herself that she was training boys to make their living, giving them good habits, showing them how to study, now and then...
...costume was the blue regimentals of a soldier of '61, and a rather effective uniform in the mass. A transparency at the head of the parade gave a cartoon of the "lone Indian freshman," of 1636," and on the other side, the fierce declaration - "Here we are, '90. Look out!" coupled with the calm assertion that "90 is the brightest class in many a year." A bulletin signed "C. J.," another proof of the extreme subtlety of freshman wit, warned all students from entering the yard during the celebration. Still another asserted that the college had been "waiting...