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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Cleveland: Mr. President and gentlemen: I find myself today in a company to which I am unused; and when I see the Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill...
...oldest graduate at the time of the two hundredth anniversary was the Hon. Paine Wingate, of the class of 1759, who died in 1838. He was a class-mate of Dr. Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill...
...University of Heidelberg stands among the oldest as well as among the most famous of all the universities. Only seven of them are her seniors: Bologna (1140), Paris (1142), Oxford (1200), Padua (1222), Salamanca (1250), Prague (1348), Vienna (1356). Among these seven only one, Oxford, can claim to rival her in glory. It was to be expected that when the five hundredth anniversary of her birthday came around, not only the alumni of the university and the inhabitants of Heidelberg, but scholars of every name and tongue, from all over Christendom, would flock together to take part in the glorious...
...says, that all the histories of Harvard have been taken out of the library by men who are reading up for orations or a torchlight procession, but when such an opportunity as the present is offered no excuse could be justly given why it should not be embraced. The oldest university in the land surely must have some interest to any student, but when the student is a Harvard student it becomes imperative upon him to know what has characterized the life of the university which is now directing his studies...
Graduates of the University in the order of their Classes, from the oldest Class present to that of 1836, inclusive...