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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...better purpose. Intelligence, discretion, vigilance, patience, punctuality, integrity, kindness, were all equally essential qualities for one in his position, and they were so perfectly united in him that we should do him wrong by selecting either of them for special praise. He merits our enduring gratitude for his loyal service to the College, and our reverent memory for his blameless excellence in every relation of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

Resolved, That by the decease of Edmund Quincy; a member of this Board, the University has been deprived of one of its most loyal men. Faithful to his duties of observation, his latest hours were expended in the to him agreeable duty of noting the proficiency of the scholars from whose presence he issued so suddenly to die. An independent thinker, an exact scholar, and an accomplished author, he leaves behind him a reputation equally honorable to the institution which developed his talents and to his own fidelity to the trusts reposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...Pietas et Gratulatio, was issued from the College on the occasion of the death of George II. and the accession to the throne of George III. Governor Bernard, the loyalist, laid the corner-stone of Harvard Hall in 1764, and, until 1769, the College was outwardly, at least, thoroughly loyal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN THE REVOLUTION. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

...therefore, in this, as in all that he undertook, was of the most thorough and promising kind. But conspicuous as he was for mental ability, it is in the private relations of friendship that his loss will be most felt. His friends will miss one who was warm-hearted, loyal, and generous to a fault; one whose character, far above the suspicion of anything mean or paltry, was yet tempered with so much modesty as to render it obtrusive to no one; one who never hesitated to express his strict and conscientious sentiments, and yet was always considerate; in short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

APROPOS of the above: Scene, Parker's; crowd of Holyoke men with their colors; solitary Weld man with alarmingly loyal hat. Somebody says: "They will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

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