Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wilson, treasurer during the past year, then read a statement of his account. The full report will be published in the CRIMSON of Saturday...
...Harvard was founded by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and first endowed by an educated son of pious London tradespeople. When I had read these Harvard wills I asked myself how closely the college is bound - after 250 years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers...
According to the time-honored custom, the CRIMSON to-day lays before its readers reports of the athletic events which took place at the close of the previous college year. Sometimes, as last year, the records have been anything but pleasant reading. This year the story of Harvard's victories is one that will serve to awaken again the enthusiasm of the upperclassman, and, it may be, will stir the blood of the incoming freshman, though in the events chronicled he had no part. Certain it is that the successes of last year will form an oft read chapter...
Oration by Edward Terry Sanford; Poem by George Read Nutter; Ivy oration by Ernest Laurence Thayer; Ode by Joseph Adna Hill. Sanders Theatre...
...class day officers of '85 are: secretary, Walter Allen Halbert, of Binghampton, N. Y.; first marshal, John Eliot Thayer, of Boston; second marshal, James Jackson Storrow, Jr., of Boston; third marshal, Charles Heath Atkinson, of Brookline; orator, Edward Terry Sanford, of Knoxville, Tenn.; poet, George Read Nutter, of Boston; odist, Joseph Adna Hill, of Temple, N. H.; ivy orator, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, of Worcester; chorister, Clarence Walter Ayer, of Haverhill; class day committee, Samuel Ellsworth Winslow, of Worcester, John Joslin Colony, of Keene, Frederic Adrian Delano, of Newburg, N. Y.; class committee, William Henry Baldwin, Jr., of Boston, Otto Rheinhard...