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...occupied, President Porter attempted to abolish the senior bow, but the seniors were so strongly in favor of preserving it that he yeilded to the continuation of the time honored custom, and it will doubtless be handed down to the grateful remembrance of future presidents and to seniors yet unborn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Senior Bow at Yale. | 6/12/1889 | See Source »

...president, and has presided over the American Association for the advancement of science. In 1884 his portrait, made in bronze, was presented to Harvard College. No tablet of bronze will be necessary to perpetuate the scientific fame of Asa Gray. It is well, however, that generations of scholars yet unborn may thus be able to gaze upon the gentle features of a man whom no one has yet surpassed in the lustre which he has shed upon their Alma Mater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Asa Gray. | 2/1/1888 | See Source »

...looms once more the shadowy mountain. The last red ray quivers for an instant in the Octagon Tower and then goes suddenly out, announcing to the world that the jubilee is ended, and Father Time must plod on another hundred years, until a century swings round once more and unborn thousands come to make these hills once more re-echo their festival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Heidelberg Jubilee. III. | 11/3/1886 | See Source »

...generations yet unborn should bless

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...social science before the envious eyes of all past and present greatness, has finally deposited it on the head of modest Henry C. Carey. Not content with this even, the inimitable Kate pedestals her hero and, labelling him "the Newton of Social Science," reluctantly withdraws, that generations yet unborn may have opportunity to do him proper homage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HUMOROUS WORKS. | 2/11/1876 | See Source »

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