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Bishop Lawrence preached the Baccalaureate Sermon to the class of ninety-four yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel. He took his text from the thirteenth chapter of Acts, "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers." This, he said, was the best thing that could have been said of David, "he served his own generation;" and to serve our own time is the best that any one of us can do. We are not called upon to worry now about the questions which seem...
...told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which was common to our Harvard soldiers...
...already been announced, a brief service will be held in Sanders Theatre tomorrow at 12 o'clock, noon, in memory of Harvard men who fell in the War. The only exercises will be the reading of portions of Mr. Lowell's Commemoration Ode by Mr. Charles Eliot Norton, with a few appropriate remarks, and singing by the Glee Club. The exercises will take very little if any over half an hour. Coming at just this hour when nothing else is going on to interfere, there seems to be no reason why a large number of the students should...
Memorial Service. To commemorate the sons of Harvard who fell in the War. Sanders Theatre...
...half mile twenty-four men started. Harvard's chances were over when Hollister and Hill both fell. The race went to a "dark horse," Kilpatrick of Union, in 12m. 59 1-5s. Woodhull of Yale took second, and Vincent of Harvard third...