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...ground of classmates and old college friends who will have much to talk of, besides "shop." There, the lawyer will gladly forget his clients, and the doctor his patients, and the man of business in discussing the "fizzles," "flunks" and "rusghes" of bygone days will cease to think of cotton, grain and stocks...
...subject of political economy and he professes to have found a solution to the problem of what affects wages. Whether he has succeeded or not in a correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people, as the subject of tariff reform is so often mentioned in the daily papers and reviews. For this reason the club has determined to give the students an insight into the workings of these industries...
...opinions and purposes was a prominent feature of his character at this period. The following incident well illustrates his immovable persistency. The college rules at this time prescribed an undergraduate's uniform dress; and as one of the details a waistcoat of "black-mixed or black; or when of cotton or linen of white." Sumner wore a buff-colored waistcoat, which encountered the observation of the narietal committee. He maintained that it was white or nearly enough so to comply with the rule. He persisted in his position, and was summoned several times to appear for disobedience...
Among the greatest of the early colonial writers are Increase and Cotton Mather, father and son. They were able and so far beyond the learned men of New England of the day that Prof. Coit Tyler devotes a chapter to "The Dynasty of the Mathers." To be a scholar was part of the family inheritance." Of Increase Mather, the first native American who was president of Harvard College, Prof. Tyler says :-"By the great force of his learning, his logic, his sense, his eloquence, his sagacity and audacity in partilsan command, he became, during the first thirty years of that...
...celebrated son, Cotton, graduated in 1678 at the age of fifteen. His "Magnolia Christi Americana" was the most famous book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class...