Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speak of the President of the United States, I desire to mention as the most interesting, pleasant and characteristic feature of our system of government the nearness of the people to their president and all their high officials. The close view given the citizens of the acts and conduct of those to whom they have entrusted their interests, serves as a regulator and check upon temptation in official life; and it teaches that diligence and faithfulness are the true measures of public duty. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good! good."] Such a relation between the people and their president...
...shall speak of the grand service of the evening? Those who attended it must relate a repetition of the glorious music of the morning enhanced by the excellent quartette of the four graduate voices. But still more, who shall speak of the beauties and magnificence of the grand sermon by Rev. Phillips Brooks? Two thousand listeners must try to answer; we cannot...
...that large life in which hers must be inclosed and out of which it is to be fed, is expressed in these words of the Old Epistles of the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The necessity of which I speak is universal. There is no life which fulfils itself entirely and worthily, except as it is inclosed within the grasp of a life larger than its own. Such enclosure may be represented, as an obedience, to which the life is bound, a service which it is compelled to render, or more truly...
...students, which, we believe, is growing less and less each year, but which has done much to make Harvard and Harvard men, as such, unpopular throughout the United States, barring, of course, the municipality of Boston. If there were a little less of that unworthy spirit of which we speak and more cordiality and honesty, no doubt the exercises which are to take place to-day would be marked by greater enthusiasm and less insincerity. But we have indeed to be thankful that the average Harvard undergraduate has outlived the period when everything curious or unusual is worthy of attention...
...speak or write a great deal about Germany without touching frequently upon the great subject of Beer. Beer is to the German what poetry is to the poet - the native language of his soul. No celebration of any kind is complete without it. No matter upon what solemn occasion a Teuton enters, no matter how exalted the emotions which flood his soul or how abstruse the speculations which engage his thoughts, he must be sustained throughout by constant communion with his froth-crowned schooner...