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...acknowledgment of error would diminish respect for the courts. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing can undermine public esteem for law more certainly than a prevalent suspicion that its guardians care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary concern for justice without which...
Pater noster, qui es in caelis: sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen...
...have met to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University--clarum et venerabile nomen. In behalf of those under whose auspices this meeting is held, I salute this distinguished gathering of scholars and citizens, assembled here today to felicitate our beloved guest upon this glad-some anniversary, and to bear witness to the honor, reverence and affection in which he is held among all the sons of Harvard, in the world of scholarship and letters, and throughout the length and breadth of our Republic. We greet you, one and all, with most cordial...
GENTLEMEN:- Among the papers left by the late Professor Lowell,- clarum et venerabile nomen not only here at Harvard, but wherever good learning is cherished and great public services are honored,- were some scraps of the lectures to which his classes had the exceptional privilege of listening. Brief and fragmentary as they are, they yet exhibit in their small compass the breadth of mind and the wise reflection which were among the most marked traits of his nature, traits in which genius and character were united in rare combination...
...dextras iunximus; legatis denique Insignibus missis, ludis illissaecularibus, etiam absentes, velut praesentes interfuimus. Hodie vero e Collegii illius professoribus unum re vera praesentem videmus, virum et suo et patris et Collegii sui nomine nobis dilectum. Donec Alpium inter culmina ingentes illae glaciei moles desuper paullatim descendunt, tam diupatris illius nomen superstes vivet, qui, in Republica non magna natus, Rempublicam maximam gloriae suae fecit participem, expertus scilicet vetera illa verba quam vera essent...