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...substitutes are for Ninety-three, Ellsworth, Stearns, Winsor, Macallister; for Ninety-four, Whitney, Clarkson, McDaniel, Carey, Earle, H. Frothingham, Jackson...
...were present as an impressive and singularly appropriate exercise. While we enjoy unusual advantages here at Harvard in our opportunities of having men whose reputations as scholars are of the highest, we canno but realize that the privilege of hearing an address from such a man as Dr. Winsor, was a most enviable one. It is also a pleasure to listen to one so well-known as Rev. Professor Churchill, while the honor which was accorded us by the World's Fair Committee in permitting the Columbian March of Prof. Paine's to be sung here for the first time...
Harvard appropriately observed Columbus Day by exercises in Appleton Chapel yesterday morning. After Dr. Peabody had opened the services with prayer the choir sang Prof. Paine's hymn, written expressly for the Worlds Fair and sung for the first time only through the courtesy of the committee. Dr. Justin Winsor followed with his address...
...Winsor stands perhaps without a peer among American historians and on account of recent research is especially well qualified to speak on Columbus. He began by crediting to the ancient Greeks cosmographical study which found its fruition in the 15th century. Had Carthage triumphed over Rome we might sooner have known the secrets of the Atlantic, but after all it is to the descendants of the Romans, Columbus, Vespucsi Verrizaro and John Cabot that we are indebted for the discovery of America...
...Winsor contrasted the faithful loyalty of Columbus to the church, with the attitude of many of his day, and closed his address by showing how fortunate it was that Columbus guided by the birds landed among the peaceful inhabitants of the Bahamas rather than among the fierce nations of Florida or on the bleak shores to the north...