Word: schurz
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COMPLIMENTS OF THE CLASSES OF '80.SECRETARY SCHURZ was invited to deliver the Commencement oration, but had to refuse on account of the pressure of official business...
...next speaker was Carl Schurz, who, after alluding to the fact that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
General Devens then called upon Senator Bayard, of Delaware, to respond to the toast proposed by Mr. Schurz, "The scholar in politics...