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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true, but we can work up the first one next week. That is what we call progressive reading. If "'88" does his topic reading that way, we do not wish to imitate him. Rear backwards! You might as well begin a house by setting the roof, or sit down at whist and lear out before the cards are all dealt around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY 13 AGAIN. | 12/2/1886 | See Source »

...substitutes for the reference system now in use, which has been perfected by the instructors at a great expense of time and labor. It no doubt is much easier to lounge in an easy chair and read a book or two in connection with a certain course than to sit at a desk in the library or in your own room and learn from consultation with a number of writers what the real ethics of a question is. One is reading and the other is work. Hence the unpopularity of the latter system in use in History 13, is paramountly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/1/1886 | See Source »

...perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings, Paines, Wards, Warrens, Emersons, and Pickerings, recalling the qualities, and even the features of our heroes, of the Revolutionary period. So may our descendants shout in this very hall, when 50 years, hence, the President shall recall heroic names of our day, and shall exhort another generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collation of Alumni Association. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...brow shall sit a nobler grace than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collation of Alumni Association. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...blue velvet, ride by under a canopy, escorted by the noble ladies and gentlemen of the court, among whom the court fool, mounted on a frisky ass, plunges recklessly about. A group of students and professors are followed by a huge car, a sort of exalted chariot, on which sit five beautiful young girls, representing Ruperto Carola, Piety, Wisdom, Justice, Truth. This ends the first division of the procession. The next epoch begins with the triumphal entry of Frederick I, named the Victorious, after the battle of Seckenheim, 1462. The war-scarred veterans, with torn ensigns and shattered spears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. II. | 11/2/1886 | See Source »

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