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...additional number of visitors seen in Cambridge last evening, evidenced the interest which is felt among the neighboring cities, in the great anniversary which we are no commemorating. But the postponement of the torchlight parade rendered the evening dull in comparison with what had been expected would occur. Under the circumstances, however, the postponement was eminently wise, notwithstanding the fact that the darkness of the evening would have rendered any torchlight or firework display exceptionally brilliant...
...would be impossible to accommodate all the graduates and guests of the University at Memorial Hall, the faculty have seen fit to allow a first-class caterer to serve meals in Massachusetts Hall. How sadly the vicissitudes of life have fallen upon poor old Massachusetts! Used at first as a dormitory, then turned into a lecture hall, it has finally evolved into a restaurant...
...raising crops as an amateur farmer, and even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd...
...took him off in the latter part of 1638. You know that by a will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told us he had ever seen, but whose provisions have come down to us, in the grateful comment of his friends and of those of the college. And so the figure of John Harvard rises before us to-day, doubly sacred, very likely for the scant knowledge which we have of him, lofty and august...
...when everything curious or unusual is worthy of attention simply because of its curiosity or novelty. A celebration is of interest to us, not from the fact that it is a celebration, but because it has a meaning deeper and more potent than any fact or expectation to be seen on the surface. It is this spirit of insight which will add zest to the programme of to-day and which will prove itself to be Harvard's greatest accomplishment during the last two hundred and fifty years...