Word: states
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recognize and acquiesce in the well-known state of affairs that there are ranks in Harvard College. There are the rich and luxurious, those who have departed so far from the ideals of the fathers that honest labor honestly done is something disgraceful. There are those that have never known anything but lives of toil and sacrifice for the results they have; those to whom labor and poverty cannot be disgraceful because these are the central facts of their lives. I say we are all aware of this state of affairs: but I doubt if in the memory of many...
...without its meaning to us that under yonder elm Washington first took command of the American Army and that the Massachusetts Legislature driven from the State House by the cannon of the British troops, met in the college chapel, or that the College having waited for a century and a half before conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws to men outside her own number, elected George Washington as the first to whom this order should be given. Or to take a later scene, in the early days of the Civil War in 1861, the diary of the treasurer...
...Tuesday.President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
...Wednesday.Board of Overseers. Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
...second annual tournament for the championship of the State of Massachusetts will be held on Saturday, June 15, and Monday, June 17, on the grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club, at Longwood, Boston...