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...population; but to many they may be obscured by the mist of some private grievance, or by the misleading appeals of politicans to party loyalty. It is the educated man who can best estimate the good which has resulted from two years of patient unremitting toil in the behalf of the city, under circumstances of almost insuperable difficulty. It is he who can fully measure the wisdom of continuity in the city's policy, and the folly of surrendering our hard won gains to a horde of greedy spoils-men. It is he who through his share of the larger...
...committee appointed to investigate reported in favor of the building of a dam just above Craigie Bridge. This recommendation, however, owing to the imperfections of the engineering plans proposed, was not carried out. Since the legislative session of 1901, an active campaign has been carried on in behalf of the Charles River dam, by the following committee: J. J. Sorrow '85, chairman. H. L. Higginson h.'82, A. Hemenway '75. Nathan Matthews, Jr., George W. Weld '60, Dr. Chas, G. Weld...
...will take place on November 10. On the afternoon of that day a meeting will be held in the New Lecture Hall, at which the German ambassador at Washington, Baron von Sternberg, will make the formal presentation of the Emperor's gifts, and President Eliot will accept them in behalf of the University. Professor H. C. G. von Jagemann will preside at the meeting, and Carl Schurz, president of the Germanic Museum Association, Professor Kuno Francke, curator of the Museum, and probably Andrew D. White, former ambassador at Berlin, will speak. Invitations will be extended to all the members...
George Foster Peabody, "Southerner by birth, New York banker and financier by profession, wise counsellor and disinterested worker on behalf of education in the southern states...
...undersigned, on behalf of the contributors, now have the honor of tendering to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the fund collected for this object--now in excess of $10,000. They leave its administration entirely to the discretion of the University, imposing no conditions other than that the income be used in providing for the delivery and publication of lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or upon some part of that subject, such lectures to be called "The Godkin Lectures" and of which there shall be at least one in every...