Word: natality
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...offered to any audience, even one more cultured than that which assembled yesterday in Sanders Theatre? What could be more fitting, too, than that at the birthday of festivities of the Alma Mater, the two most famous of her living sons should thus lend their aid in celebrating the 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...
...poet, now on the way to our University. We understand that the bust which has been sent to the Maine Historical Society will be unveiled on that day, and it would seem very fitting for Harvard to follow this excellent intention. The celebration of the poet's natal day would add a certain impressiveness to whatever ceremonies the college authorities may see fit to hold, and the anniversary, coming as it does so opportunely, should not be neglected...
...official catalogues of the university, he said, declare that its natal year was 1636, and this date has been recognized as the true one by successive historians of the college and of New England; and in 1836 the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of this institution was commemorated. It was during the governorship of Sir Henry Vane, and during his auspices, that the college was instituted by the Massachusetts Assembly, which it has been said, was the first body by which the people through their representatives, ever gave their own money to found a place of education. John Harvard...
Died in its natal hour...
...common country, that the governments and people of every section thereof should manifest their appreciation of the glorious victory there won by the most enthusiastic demonstrations of commendation and praise of the gallant four who so manfully upheld the honor of their native land on the anniversary of its natal day at the capital of the nation from whom a century ago we won our political independence, and who, until this great victory of Columbia College, claimed to be our superiors in manly sports and athletic games, particularly as oarsmen...