Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...say, sir, what I know is in the hearts of all, that whatever of effort he shall make for sound and just government, for the preservation of the liberties of the people for clean politics, [cheers and loud applause] for an incorruptible administration of the momentous trusts of his office, he will find himself in close accord with the high aims that actuated the founders of Harvard College, and of the fathers that gave us our beloved Commonwealth. [Cheers and applause...
...striking fact that during the ten years or so following the coming of Winthrop, the two great English Universities sent into this wilderness fully a hundred of their best men, to strengthen the purpose and tone the spirit of the new settlement. It is not too much to say that in the history of colonization, ancient or modern, never before and never again has learning ever entered so deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population...
...members of the Harvard Glee Club, for some time past have been engaged in compiling the latest songs of Harvard. To-day their work will be presented to the public in the form of a book of one hundred pages which, it is by no means an exaggeration to say, is unique among collections of college song, both for the artistic taste displayed and for the thoroughness of the work done. The book is bound in the university colors and will ornament any home. As the most recent compilation of Harvard glees-it is invaluable. For example here is presented...
...question has been raised why the route of the torch-light procession does not lie in Boston? Why the students should not accommodate their Boston friends by visiting that city instead of simply marching through provincial Cambridge? We need only say in the first place that the procession was not originated as a form of amusement for the inhabitants of any particular section, and in the second place that to transfer the scene of the celebration to Boston would render the whole occasion ridiculous. Here the college was founded, here should its foundation be celebrated. Any idea which regards...
...need not say, therefore, that on such a joyous occasion as this quincentenary jubilee beer must needs flow like water. And the long trucks, heavily laden, innumerable, which rolled by my window in Untere Neckarstrasse on their way to the Festhalle bore, witness to this truth. But on last Friday evening all the glad bibulation culminated in one grand "Bier Kommers," in which all the members of the university participated. It was held in the great Fest Halle and was attended by from four to five thousand persons. At eight and a half o'clock the bout began...