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...Cyrus H. K. Curtis, as told by his son-in-law the late Edward William Bok,* but it is doubtful if he is a hero to many of those boys. Not that he was unworthy. On the contrary, every turn of his career provides a text for a sermon on honesty, thrift, diligence, perseverance, kindliness, charity. But- and it may well be the fault of his biographers-Cyrus Curtis has never been brought as vividly to life as one might expect of a man whose properties were capitalized at $40,000,000, did better than $100,000,000 business...
...clock--Baccalaureate sermon in the Memorial Church, followed by President Lowell's reception to the Senior class...
President Lowell cordially invites the members of the Senior Class to his house, 17 Quincy Street, immediately after the Baccalaureate Sermon on Sunday afternoon...
...usual, partly right. I, who am well past thirty, can't remember a sentence of A. Lawrence Lowell's baccalaureate sermon of June, 1921. But I can recall a good deal of the sermon at chapel on class day morning. Some notable divine was supposed to give it, but he had a call elsewhere or something, and the saintly George Herbert Palmer, already professor emeritus for several years, pinch hit for him. Most of us knew him only as the author of some required freshman reading. "Self-Cultivation in English," and we were faintly disappointed...
...Hearst was slow in getting under way. being still excited over the "foreign entanglements'' which the U. S. had incurred by its Disarmament policy. (On the day when its front page "bared" the "Morgan deals." the New York Evening Journal's editorial page carried a Brisbanal sermon on Brain v. Brawn.) But presently Publisher Hearst crashed out with a signed editorial for the front pages of his morning papers. Theme (from Democrat Raskob's reply to Morgan's invitation to buy stock on the "inside") : "I hope I will be able to reciprocate...