Word: populus
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...that time, the Club drew largely from the Commonwealth Avenue, set of the Boston populus; today, that set has exurbed itself to the currently more fashionable surrounding communities, but the atmosphere of the Club remains largely the same, except for the introduction of fairly sizable numbers of undergraduates and young alumni. If you were to drop in in the late afternoon, you would still find remnants of old Boston enthroned in the same leather chairs they have used for decades. There is no mistaking the fact that a club is a club, and the Harvard Club is no exception...
...figure of John Harvard in the Emmanuel Chapel bears a scroll whereon is inscribed 'Populus qui creabitur laudabit dominum.' We recognize, sir, and we admire the way in which Harvard's university bore its part. We recognize and we admire the hold Harvard University has upon her sons, the greatness of the people in whose midst it is placed, and the greatness of the service which the University renders to the people...
...vulgus" and the "populus...