Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Cleveland: Mr. President and gentlemen: I find myself today in a company to which I am unused; and when I see the Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill...
...ought to leave but little room in the popular judgment of conscience for unjust and false accusations and for malicious slander, invented for the purpose of undermining the people's faith and confidence in the administration of their government. [Applause.] No public officer should desire in the least to see checked the utmost criticism of all official acts. But every fair-minded man must conceive that your president should not be put beyond the protection which American fair play and American love of decency accords to every American citizen. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good] good...
...look back upon that procession now to see only a host of shadows. Out of a committee of forty, two only beside myself are left, the prominent lawyer of Boston, Sidney Bartlett, and our illustrious poet who gave the charming little song upon that occasion and who has given a noble poem upon this occasion and who, we all rejoice to perceive, has renewed his youth like the eagle, after that brilliant flight across the Atlantic and that rapturous reception by old England. [Applause...
...Peabody Museum will be open to-day, for the benefit of the visiting alumni, who will thus be enabled to see what remarkable ethnological treasures their Alma Mater possesses...
...great number of people had collected to see the races, - including many graduates, of whom a large number were old rowing men. The boat-house platform and the floats were covered with spectators, and the whole scene as far as the lower bridge was lined with students and their friends...