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...acceptances for the eight hundredth anniversary of the University of Bologna are still coming in. Most of the foreign universities send elegant letters in Latin; some are beautifully engrossed on parchment...
...incident of the reception, of unusual interest, was the presentation by Prof. Parker in the name of Cambridge University, England, of greetings, engrossed on parchment, to President Eliot in the name of Harvard. This document is inscribed in Latin, with Greek quotations, and expresses the best wishes of old Cambridge University to the new, and the hope that the strong ties which binds the two counties may be made the stronger by such occasions as these. Accompanying the parchment, the seal of the English university enclosed in an engraved solid silver casket was presented...
...highest ideals of living, is to teach us to see what is right, and to stick to it unflinchingly, she must care more for the right than for money and popularity. It would be better for her to make men out of a few, than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive for the highest...
...Annex will become a recognized part of Harvard University, and the young lady graduates will receive, instead of a certificate stating that they have satisfactorily completed a course of study at "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women"-the incorporate name of the Annex,-a real parchment diploma, which will make them graduates of Harvard...
...receive the Valedictory. After the commencement exercises he asked his classmates to accompany him to the green behind the college, where, in their presence, he deliberately tore up his diploma and threw it to the winds exclaiming: "My industry may make me a great man, but this miserable parchment cannot;" and immediately mounting his horse, departed for home...