Word: men
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise. We are from all sorts of pursuits, all sorts of hobbies...
...large scholarship funds. For a poor student without brains it is not to be recommended. I not infrequently have heard apprehension expressed lest, in consequence of the number of our scholarships, good scholarship should come to be associated with poverty, lest the 'digs' should all be poor men. That has not yet happened in this college. Out of the first eighty men in the class which graduated to-day only thirty were applicants for scholarships or beneficiary aid. That is, five eighths of the first half of the class were men whose parents or friends could provide for them...
...perhaps imagine that it is the children of men who have been educated here who now fill the college. Far from it. Not one in eight of the students now in college is the son of a man who has received a degree from the University, no matter in what department. It is one of the chief delights of those who have the privilege of devoting their lives to the service of this precious institution, that they work not alone for the generation which is now under their hands, but for the thronging generations of the future...
...gentlemen, it is not alone these considerations which move me to express my gratitude for the honor which you have done me. I have had the extreme honor to have been admitted to the acquaintanceship of some of your most distinguished men, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Holmes. In my own country I have had even the greater honor of receiving under my roof such men as Prescott, Hawthorne, and Motley. And when I consider that through your grace I have been domiciled, so to speak, within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where...
...Nine were unable to get on to Andrews's pitching for the first four innings, and as Amherst was equally unable to hit Ernst, the result was o to o in four innings. In the fifth inning our men began to bat, and had scored three runs in the sixth, when time was called to enable the Amherst men to attend a class supper...