Word: stone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first ten of the Institute from '82 are as follows: Kane, Bartlett, Warren, Bowen, Stone, Pendleton, Dickey, Leavitt, Sedgwick, and Manning...
...Stone...
...been a thesis which I have with the greatest gratification maintained against many ignorant or prejudiced attacks, that wealth, though an advantage, was no sure stepping-stone to favor at Harvard, and that a lack of it is no hindrance to preference and position. My observation has abundantly convinced me of this, and I always refer to it with pride. Any movement from within or without tending to disturb this natural and healthy state of things by raising the artificial cry of alms or charity, where good sense and manliness discover only labor rewarded and ability recognized, should be most...
...nothing varies the dreary, brown monotony of the steaming Yard, except here and there the bright green spot which denotes the passing, verdant Freshman, or the umbrella of the chance passer as he picks his way round the deep and treacherous puddles, - a succession of which compose the "stone" walk, - or trudges courageously through the mud of the other ways. The trees are waving their bare branches dismally to and fro, and groaning at the rude embraces of the north-wind...
Shall raise a votive stone at last...