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Speaking at Harvard's commemoration in 1886 of William and Mary's prostration after the Civil War, Senator George F. Hoar said: "The stout-hearted old President still rings the morning bell and keeps the charter alive, and I want to salute him today from Harvard; and I should value it more than any public honor or private good fortune that could come to me if I might live to see that old, historic college of Virginia endowed anew with liberal aid of the sons of Harvard...
...Previous to the Civil War all appropriations were passed upon first by a single committee for that purpose. Now we have a Committee on Agriculture, reporting appropriations for the Department of Agriculture; a Committee on Military Affairs, reporting appropriations for the War Department; a Committee on Naval Affairs, reporting appropriations for the Navy Department; a Committee on Indian Affairs, reporting appropriations for the Indian Service; a Committee on Foreign Relations, reporting appropriations for our Foreign Service; a Committee on Post Offices reporting appropriations for our Postal Service; a Committee on Rivers and Harbors, reporting appropriations for the improvement...
Francis Davis Millet, born in 1846, served in the Civil War as a drummer boy, enlisting in 1861 at the age of 15. He entered College in 1865, and at the end of his course spend several years studying at Antwerp. He was for some time a newspaper correspondent for the Boston Advertise, and during the Russo-Turkish War and the Spanish War reported for the London Daily News and the New York Herald. In the field of art he ranked among the most prominent of American mural decorators and medal designers...
Promptly at 3 P. M. the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the Faculties, some 450 former members of the Harvard Regiment, 50 members of the James A. Shannon Post of the Legion, and delegations from Cambridge Post No. 27, the Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, and the Charles Beck Post of the G. A. R. will assemble in front of Widener Library with the Harvard University Band playing under the portico...
...Those members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the Faculties who wish to take part in the procession, together with the Harvard Regiment, the James A. Shannon Post, the Cambridge Post No. 27, the Harvard Veterans of the Civil War, the Charles Beck Post of the G. A. R., and such other members of the University as have been assigned tickets to Sanders theatre, are asked to assemble promptly at 3 P. M. in front of Widener Library to take part in the preliminary exercises and then go in procession to Sanders Theatre...