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Ebenezer Pemberton 1691, his colleague at the Old South Church, Boston, speaks of him as follows: "In him bountiful Heaven was pleased to cause a concurrence of all those natural and acquired, moral and spiritual excellencies, which are necessary to constitute a great man, a profound divine, a very considerable scholar, and a Heavenly Christian...
...College Library has just received an interesting and valuable memorial of the first school teacher in Cambridge, Elijah Corlet. This is a broadside sheet on which is printed "An Elegiack Verse on the Death of the Pious and Profound Rhetorician and Grammarian, Mr. Elijah Corlet, School Master in Cambridge, who deceased anno aetatis 77. February 24, 1687." The lines, which have small poetical merit, were written by Nehemiah Walter, a graduate of the College in the class of 1684, who had doubtless been a pupil of Corlet's, and was, in 1687, continuing his studies in Cambridge as a graduate...
...Anatole Le Braz, professor of Celtic literature at the University of Rennes, has been selected to deliver the Hyde Lectures of the Cercle Francais for the ensuing year. M. Le Braz is a native of Brittany, and is a profound student of the customs and of the Celtic literature of the province. He has contributed largely to the French daily papers and to several of the leading periodicals. He has produced, moreover, a number of books, several of which, have been crowned by the French Academy. The most important works, which he has produced are: "La Chanson de la Bretagne...
...harsher than their elders and less just to persons whom they dislike." For my part, I would rather be caught, at twenty, lifting a bronze tablet out of Brooks House, than clamoring in the College papers for harsher punishment for a fellow student. The former offense is evidence of profound indiscretion, but is not inconsistent with honor or the noblest qualities. It shows misapprehension of some things, but not necessarily a corrupted character. Is punishment in itself a thing to be desired? I never heard...
Unions would strive to dominate the entire industrial world, to put a monopoly price on union labor, to limit production, and to dictate to employers. All this bodes no good to labor, rather constitutes a profound menace to American labor and American industry...