Word: great
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...task on which President Lowell officially enters today is to be of vital interest to Harvard, and through Harvard to the educational world. American colleges and universities are in the swing of a great movement which is bringing them increase in numbers, in wealth, and in power. It is given to the president of this University to be one of those who direct this movement, and to guide it wisely is a work than which none is more important...
...parade has been planned by the Student Council as the great pictorial feature of the inauguration. An ample supply of outfits of torch, sash and red fire has been provided, and, as we explained on Monday, the price has been set at the lowest possible figure. A band will play on the march from the Yard and some of the familiar football songs will be sung. At Soldiers Field there will be a series of evolutions, an elaborate display of fire-works, with a final torchlight march around the top of the Stadium. President Lowell and his guests will occupy...
John Christopher Willis, also a delegate from the University of Cambridge; an eminent botanist, remarkable for his knowledge of tropical plants; Director of the Royal Garden in Ceylon; who has done a great work in improving the varieties useful...
William Abbott Herdman; delegate from the University of Liverpool; a great authority on marine biology, who has dredged the floor of the ocean, and learned the secrets of the oyster and the pearl...
Frank Johnson Goodnow, Professor at Columbia; clear of brain and tireless in work; an expounder of administrative law and municipal government, who has trained many disciples by his teaching, enlightened the public by his works, and placed his great knowledge freely at the service of the state...