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...pleasant to think that at last, after a seeming forgetfulness of over two hundred years, the man to whom this flourishing university owes its very existence is to be fitly remembered by a handsome memorial in the form of a statue. Born in England and educated at Cambridge University, John Harvard early crossed the Atlantic and settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony and here after a short residence he died. From the first he was interested in education and his entire library of 500 volumes and half of his little fortune of $4,000 was bequeathed to the struggling college...
...death of Aaron Roger Crane, not only a class but the entire college has lost a friend. He died early on Wednesday morning from heart-disease. His death was as sudden as it was unexpected, and coming so soon before his graduation it seems especially sad. He was born on March 18, 1861, his home was at Newton Highlands. He was the oldest son of Moses G. Crane. He prepared for Harvard at the Newton High School and entered the freshman class in the fall of 1880. His great physical strength gained for him one of the foremost places...
...doubt, strongly impressed with a sense of their utility or their singular fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion of the country. There are some who are roused by the ambition of a Marlborough-to amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles...
Although the college authorities do not kindly allow the students any privileges on this holiday wherewith to celebrate the day, yet the evidences of activity among the native born population of the town made itself evident yesterday to all, students included, from very early in the morning until the hours of work were over. About 7.30 the early breakfasts at Memorial Hall were surprised by the appearance of a detachment of grand Army veterans decorating, as is now the custom, the tablets in the transept. All the morning the air was filled with the sound of martial music, which reached...
...political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three gentlemen who had more votes turned out to be foreign-born, and therefore ineligible. Another singular aspect of this post-office academy -making is the fact, of which I am informed by a fellow immortal ranking high on the list, that he and certain others owed their high places to a special "boom" organized without their knowledge by some young admirers and parishioners,-these particular...