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...President of the University, this is a rare felicity, that, as we stand together contemplating the grand triumphs of the centuries that have passed, we stand in the presence of that grand nation, born of the impulses that sprang up here and around us, and that we are permitted to signalize this event by our tributes of honor and appreciation to the distinguished, able, patriotic chief magistrate, the President of the United States. [Cheers; loud applause...
...this portion of the American people. And who were these men, the larger part of whom were from Cambridge, and of whom at least a score were from Emmanuel? There was Simon Bradstreet, destined to span the two charter-periods of New England, and to be the veteran around whom the old-charter men rallied after the deposition of Andros. There was John Cotton, another son of Emmanuel, and what would early Boston have been without him and John Wilson, the leaders of its first church, - Cotton of Lincolnshire, bringing here the saintly memories of Botolph's town, and Wilson...
...Only seven of them are her seniors: Bologna (1140), Paris (1142), Oxford (1200), Padua (1222), Salamanca (1250), Prague (1348), Vienna (1356). Among these seven only one, Oxford, can claim to rival her in glory. It was to be expected that when the five hundredth anniversary of her birthday came around, not only the alumni of the university and the inhabitants of Heidelberg, but scholars of every name and tongue, from all over Christendom, would flock together to take part in the glorious celebration. For weeks beforehand the whole city was in a bustle of anxious preparation. There was erected...
...bogus sailors are around again this gear with their "smuggled" cigars. They are "imported" from Boston and wholesale at ten dollars a thousand. Freshmen beware...
...animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Edward Everett, the President of the day, rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect of his own unrivalled declamation, his fancy seemed to burst away on freshened pinion, and to pour forth lavishly the riches of his well-fraught mind." President Everett then spoke for nearly an hour, closing with the following toast...