Word: said
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Story began by explaining that what President Eliot had said in the preceding lecture of Harvard in the fifties was substantially true of Harvard in the sixties. The change in the numbers was slight, and the buildings, curriculum, etc., were practically the same. The one word which best expresses the difference between Harvard of today and Harvard in the sixties is simplicity. College men then were more simple in every way than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They...
...Storey said that when he recalled his college career the scenes which he remembered best were those when news from the war was heard. Very often the newspapers contained accounts of battles and lists of Harvard men who had died for their country. Thirty years ago, on Good Friday night, Lincoln was assassinated. All day long the bells in Cambridge tolled, announcing his death. On the day that General Lee surrendered the college gave a holiday to celebrate the good news. At the Commencement of that year Lowell read for the first time his "Commemoration...
Yesterday afternoon the Vesper Service in Appleton Chapel was well attended in spite of the disagreeable weather. Professor Peabody preached, taking his text from the thirteenth chapter of St. John. He said that one should learn humility from the example which Christ set us in washing his disciples' feet, and that we should try to do more to serve others...
...advisability of building a navy, said Professor Hollis, may seem an unnecessary prelude to a talk on battle ships; but when we consider that England is beginning a war in the Soudan and that Spain is waring in Cuba it is well to consider that nation is most likely to survive which is the best equipped...
...architecture which originated in Italy with the Lombards, said Mr. Cummings, and spread during the Dark Ages, and afterwards, over Europe, is neither the Asiatic, Byzantine, nor Roman; but combines features of them all. It is a style which lies between the Roman and the Gothic. Until 1820 it was variously termed; but that year a French architect named it Romanesque...