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...pages of this rare book contain papers relating to the semicentennial celebration of those who started the idea, and newspaper accounts of the meeting and dinner at which "fifteen of the eighteen surviving members of the class of 1788 were present." One of these was the famous Justice Story, whose autograph is given...
...closing words were as follows: I am the only survivor of those who made speeches in the great pavilion, which resounded for three or four hours with the eloquence of Quincy and Everett and Shaw and Story and Saltonstall and Sprague and Daniel Webster, [applause] whose presence alone was enough to give dignity and grandeur to any occasion. Nor must I omit to allude to the fact that among those speakers was that accomplished and eminent scholar and orator, Hugh Wesley Green, who, only six years later died at the home of his friend, George Pickering, of Boston, having visited...
...were no professors, the President being the head master and choosing some from among the "Sirs" - the resident graduates, - "to read to the Junior pupils," and you may have placed yourself in a sufficiently historical state of mind to appreciate the subjoined list of Presidents in the course of whose administrations all the changes have been wrought that we are so justly proud...
...creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history must be conscious of all human history in whose embrace it is held, and of the vast eternity in which all the history of this world is all the time living, as a cloud swims in the limitless sky. The christian in the church, the citizen in the State, the institution in the Commonwealth. Everywhere you have the principle...
...half would be a terrible mockery if it was not so; if, whether we are conscious of it or not, we had not been always advancing towards a deeper, warmer, truer certainty of the divine love summoning us and a profounder assurance of the unexhausted capacity of man whose faculties were finding training here. Whether we are conscious of it or not, I say - for one of the assurances which comes to us most clearly at a time and festival like this, is that our history has been under diviner guidance, and has moved toward nobler ends than we have...