Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president called for responses for various toasts upon the following persons: Rev. Dr. Creighton, of Emmanuel College; Dr. Charles Taylor, of St. John's College, Cambridge; Rt. Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, University of Edinburgh, Dr. Dwight, Mr. Angell, J. R. Lowell, Senator Hoar. Mr. Rivers, Prof. Agassiz, G. W. Curtis, Dr. Holmes, Dr. Mitchell of Yale, Prof. Thayer...
Among the guests and graduates of the University who registered on Sunday were President Barnard of Columbia, President Bartlett of Dartmouth, President Beach of Wesleyan, President Carter of Williams, Prof. Cooley of Michigan University, Prof. Dana of Yale, Prof. Drisler of Columbia, President Dwight of Yale, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, President Hitchcock of the Union Theological Seminary, President McCosh of Princeton, Hon. W. C. Endicott, Secretary of War, Governor Robinson, James Russell Lowell, Justice Field and Prof. Rodolfo Lanciarri of the University of Rome...
...Glee Club sang delightfully, and gave that great charm to the whole service which magnificent music always adds. The voices blended with exquisite harmony and showed the result of careful training. But what we shall chiefly remember about the service was the strong and masterly sermon by Prof. Peabody. Never before have we heard such a composition from our honored Professor of Morals, and well may be proud to have amongst us as our guide a man who possesses such power of conception and expression as Prof. Peabody showed in his sermon of yesterday...
...sympathetic, the performers seeming to respond better to the wishes of the conductor. The allegro movements were played with a great deal of precision. The whole conception of the Symphony was an admirable one. It is a pity that in place of the Toccata or the Largo, one of Prof. Paine's works was not given and under the direction of the composer himself. It would certainly have been fully as interesting as either of the two numbers and would have represented what Harvard College has done for music...
...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...