Word: mccosh
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...McCosh attended Harvard's celebration as an invited guest. He probably expected to derive some benefit for his college and much pleasure for himself from his visit. He naturally noticed that the stock of honorary degrees conferred by Harvard was exhausted before Princeton was reached. It had occurred to him that among the Faculty of Princeton College were men worthy of the hightest distinction it was in Harvard's power to grant, and it was not pleasant to think they had been overlooked while degrees were simply scattered among the Faculties of other colleges. Dr. McCosh might have overlooked this...
When Dr. Holmes had given his muse full play and the muse had refused to say anything more, Dr. McCosh quietly took his departure and boarded the next train for Princeton. He was as indignant as a Scotchman who thinks he has cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...
After giving the matter some thought but not until he was thoroughly convinced that an intentional slight was put upon Princeton College, Dr. McCosh wrote to the secretary of the committee which had had charge of the arrangements and from whom he had received his invitation. In this letter he wrote that he had attended the celebration on the invitation of Harvard College and had "met treatment that could not possibly by any chance have happened to a Harvard representative at Princeton...
...generally known that among Thackeray's poems is one on Dr. McCosh, of Princeton. It was written when Dr. McCosh was a pastor in Scotland...
...Sunday were President Barnard of Columbia, President Bartlett of Dartmouth, President Beach of Wesleyan, President Carter of Williams, Prof. Cooley of Michigan University, Prof. Dana of Yale, Prof. Drisler of Columbia, President Dwight of Yale, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, President Hitchcock of the Union Theological Seminary, President McCosh of Princeton, Hon. W. C. Endicott, Secretary of War, Governor Robinson, James Russell Lowell, Justice Field and Prof. Rodolfo Lanciarri of the University of Rome...