Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Conceive in your minds a time when there were no professors, the President being the head master and choosing some from among the "Sirs" - the resident graduates, - "to read to the Junior pupils," and you may have placed yourself in a sufficiently historical state of mind to appreciate the subjoined list of Presidents in the course of whose administrations all the changes have been wrought that we are so justly proud...
...natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful pen of the master has here traced words that will add much to the lustre of an already fair and shining reputation. Jewels of thought some of native gold, some chosen from that intellectual wealth gained little by little, from all countries and from all minds which Mr. Lowell more than almost any other...
...With some money, which his father's will had given him, he entered a student, at Emmanuel in 1627, and evidently, from the position that he took there, the butcher's money achieved for him a certain social advantage. He took his bachelor's degree in 1631 and his master's in 1634, and the signatures which he left on each of these occasions on the records of the University and that solitary volume of the library, which dying he left to the college here, are the only objects in existence which may be supposed to have received the impress...
...time a grocer, who, dying, left his property to swell the butcher's. She again married a cooper, and his moderate fortune was added to that of the butcher and the grocer, and so when Katharine, the much-husbanded, died, a year after her son took his master's degree, she had a considerable fortune to leave to her two sons, John and Thomas, and the latter son dying, it all came to John Harvard...
...following selections will be given Sunday morning at the services in Appleton Chapel, under the direction of Mr. Warren A. Locke, '69, the college choir-master...