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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Society the annual Memorial Day address in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon. The guests and students, led by the Sons of Veterans and Loyal Legion of Boston, marched to Sanders Theatre from University Hall. After the singing of "Fair Harvard" by the audience, which nearly filled the theatre, General Porter spoke in part as follows: "We gather to pay our respects to our comrades who died in the field. It is profoundly touching, it is inspiring, the thought that a great government instituted a great national day on which the feeble and young weave the flowers of spring and place them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen. Porter's Address in Sanders | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

Just as the crowd was about to leave the hall, and after Mr. Eliot had already left, President Lowell rose and spoke of his predecessor as follows: "It is President Eliot's wonderful strength of character that has brought him through his forty years of unselfish work for Harvard crowned with well earned laurels from all over the world, and has given our University her present undisputed supremacy throughout the length and breadth of this broad land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRES. LOWELL AT CINCINNATI | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

Professor Walz, A.M. '95, paid a tribute to the devotion of Professor Kuehnemann to whatever he had undertaken in the University and expressed the wish that at his departure we could again say as we said two years ago: "Auf wiedersehen." Professor Muensterberg next spoke of the change that had occurred in German literature and of the new spirit that had arisen. In the period of the greatness of German literature and art, the country was cosmopolitan because national strength was lacking. This disappeared under the influence of the political unity effected in the middle of the last century. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. KUEHNEMANN HONORED | 5/22/1909 | See Source »

...Middle Ages, the universities were huge; but the men there spoke and wrote one language--Latin--and were bound together by the church. Today scholarship cannot be one in the same sense. The unity comes in another way. Every year more American students go to Germany, and, as a result, a revolution of thought is occurring. The arrival of German professors in this country brought something few could get until then, for only the wealthy could afford to pursue their studies abroad. Of these professors, Professor Kuehnemann is one of the most cherished. President Lowell closed with these words: "When...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. KUEHNEMANN HONORED | 5/22/1909 | See Source »

...President spoke as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL'S IDEALS | 5/21/1909 | See Source »

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