Word: older
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Suitable respect was paid to this, and then, in response to a call by the president, ex-Senator Sprague, '43, reminiscenes were given by many of the older alumni. Songs were interspersed, and stories told of life at Harvard in former days...
...part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics...
...Mohammedan University nine hundred years older than Oxford, is still flourishing at Cairo, as in the days of Arabian conquests. It contains but one room, the floor is paved, and the roof is supported by four hundred columns. Ten thousand students are said to have been educated there to preach the Moslem faith...
Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...
...result of this, the practical aims of the enterprise are more than fulfilled. The pupils who come to us simply from a love of study find what they seek, while such of our graduates as intend to teach readily obtain places in the best schools, and teachers of an older grade, who often join our classes for special studies, are cheered and encouraged by the new opportunities offered them...