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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Terry, Yale '85, has been devoting a great deal of time during the past two weeks to coaching the Yale eleven...
...complete transformation of the scene of the past three days has taken place. Few traces now remain of the celebration, and the college has once more returned to its normal condition with apparently as little effort as it assumed its abnormal one. The college authorities, and the undergraduates who co-operated with them, are to be congratulated upon the way in which all the arrangements were made for the successful issue of Harvard's 250th birthday. But during the short space of three days, much has happened which time alone can never efface from the memory of all those...
...celebration of the 250th anniversary of the college, and its recollections and thoughts of the past which it has disturbed, have brought into notice an old book in the college library, which few have heard of, and many never seen. It is a large blank-book which the class of 1798 prepared at a meeting of its members on the fiftieth anniversary of their commencement day. The preface written in bold hand writing sets forth the purpose of the book to be "to preserve in the college library, by permission, its autograph of every graduate living now or hereafter...
...love to think that she must become a great home of reconciliations. In her calm and lofty air, the friends of whom the world would make, foes must meet and own their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal and eternal truth and duty, the essential unity of all good things shall be made manifest...
...full accounts of the exercises of the day before, with suitable illustrations. The literary exercises, both of graduates and undergraduates, will be fully reported by expert shorthand writers, including speeches at the alumni dinner. On Sunday morning, many columns of the Sunday Globe will be given to portraying the past and present of Harvard. Quaint historical facts, recollections and descriptions of illustrations of Harvard in 1726, 1790, 1830 and to-day; recollections of the 200th celebration, and many other things to make a most interesting souvenir of the celebration that will be of value for preservation by students and alumni...