Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Endicott Peabody, head master of Groton School, addressed the St. Paul's Society last evening. He took as his text I Corinthians, XI-13. "When I was a child, I spake as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." At the business meeting John Dana Hubbell '94 and John Hudson Hall '94 were elected to membership. The Society voted to join the Y. M. C. A. in inviting Mr. Moody to address the students...
...President Eliot Professor James Mill Pierce spoke for Harvard University. Dr. Francis Peabody and Dr. John O. Sargent of the class of '30 sent regrets at not being able to be present and the last named sent three odes composed for the occasion. In introducing Dr. Storrs, Toast-master King spoke about Harvard's giving him a degree and said: If Harvard is anything she is cosmopolitan. When she sees a good thing she annexes it. Harvard has annexed Dr. Storrs...
...Parker House last night, was th most largely attended and successful junior dinner for many years. As the first social meeting of the whole class it was an unqualified success. The officers of the dinner were: President, Neal Rantoul; orator, H. McK. Landon; poet, D. Gray; toast-master. A. M. White; and chorister, L. S. Thompson. The oration and poem were both unusully good, and the responses to the toasts were in no way behind them. Following are the toasts drunk, with the men who responded to them: 'Varsity Crew, J. C. Powers; Class Crew, J. O. Porter; 'Varsity Nine...
Fiction is out in full array; Mrs. Burton Harrison contributes "Penelope's Swains"; Joel Chandler Harris writes a dialect story called "Balaam and his Master," and Mary E. Wilkins a sketch "Emma...
...enter items of debit with the bursar. There is one entry in this book signed by John Harvard; and Mr. Winsor compared to his satisfaction this signature with those in the registry of the university which Harvard signed when he took his degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. The degrees are still conferred by the vice-chancellor in all his robes. He makes a Latin address in almost the identical language used by President Eliot every Commencement in Sanders Theatre...