Word: soullessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only one day to do their celebrating. The people round about thought that the University had nothing to be thankful for, and so took their sons away at once, fearing that where no gratitude was, there no soul could be. This was one of the first cases of a "soulless corporation," but history unfortunately has been unable to record it as the last...
...holiday, that the nation was remembering its dead. Recitations, lectures, examinations went on as usual. This indeed could be pardoned, but when the students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved on the marble tablets which line the transept; not a flag floated in the breeze. Memorial Hall had another object besides that of a memorial; it was intended to educate the youth of Harvard College in patriotism. We cannot...