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Thus it appears that out of fifty three men representing the highest attainments in the civic life, the literature, art, and science of Massachusetts, thirtyeight, or 72 per cent, were certainly college bred. Morton, the dentist, and Allen, the judge, must have had the equivalent of a college education in learning their profession. Where Bradford, Carver and Endicott were educated does not appear. Of the thirty-eight, Harvard claims twenty-five, viz., Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman, Emerson. Holmes, Lowell, Hunt, Channing, Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce...
...Venice Christianity was looked upon rather as a civic function than as the ruling influence in life. Her inhabitants were too proud and self-minded to consider anything seriously but their own prosperity and elevation. The paintings of Venice were not therefore intended to instruct in the gospel, but were rather representative of the actual city life, which was material and majestic. Commerce was what built up the city and maintained it in luxury, and on the whole it is natural that its art should show a development cerresponding to its surroundings...
...small crowd of Crimson fans in St. Paul Civic Center waved banners aloft and shouted in celebration as Harvard received the long-awaited NCAA trophy at center...
...freshman goalie records 30 saves and frustrates every Spartan at the St. Paul Civic Arena, especially Hobey Baker candidate Bobby Reynolds, who thought he saw the empty net until Roy's stick stopped his shot...
...civic parade during the Centennial, the position of honor at the head of the column was assigned to the Educational Division of Columbia College, that being the oldest organization in the city of an educational character...