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...these heroes of ours, and to all soldiers of like spirit in the civil war, we owe debts which can never be paid except in respect, admiration and loving remembrance. We owe them the demonstration that out of the hideous losses and horrors of war, as out of pestilences, famines, shipwrecks, conflagrations and the blastings of the tornado, noble souls can pluck glorious fruits of self-sacrifice and moral sublimity. And further, we owe them a great uplifting of our country in dignity, strength and security...
...Freshmen wore the blue regimentals of the Civil War and carried the famous transparency, "Harvard has been waiting for '90 250 years. Amid the Freshmen ranks came the Navy Club, a club which existed during the first of this century. The thirty laziest men in the class belonged and the most supremely lazy was high admiral. In the parade this favored individual was borne on a red divan on a dray...
...Theobald Smith, Ph.B., M. D., Professor of Comparative Pathology, to serve from September 1, 1896; electing Charles Herbert Moore, A. M., Professor of Art and Director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, to serve from September 1; appointing Lewis Jerome Johnson, A. B., C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, and Comfort Avery Adams, Jr., S. B., Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, both for five years from September 1; reappointing Daniel Lawrence Turner, C. E., instructor in Surveying and Hydraulics, from September 1; reappointing the following instructors for one year from September 1: William Vaughan Moses...
...Resolutions, read and accepted. Its essential features were: first, adherence to the gold standard; second, no disturbance of the tariff; revenue to be increased if necessary by excise taxes; denunciation of the present Southern Pacific Railroad bill; endorsement of Pres. Cleveland's foreign policy, and the extension of civil service reform. A minority resolution favoring free silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, offered by K. Stone, L. S., of Missouri, was lost after a spirited debate. The nominating speeches were then in order. Wirt Howe '96, of Louisiana, nominated Carlisle. J. S. Bryan, L. S., of Virginia...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Negro since the Civil War. Mr. P. N. Booth.- Roger Sherman. W. B. Buch. University...