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Conceive in your minds a time when there were no professors, the President being the head master and choosing some from among the "Sirs" - the resident graduates, - "to read to the Junior pupils," and you may have placed yourself in a sufficiently historical state of mind to appreciate the subjoined list of Presidents in the course of whose administrations all the changes have been wrought that we are so justly proud...
...natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful pen of the master has here traced words that will add much to the lustre of an already fair and shining reputation. Jewels of thought some of native gold, some chosen from that intellectual wealth gained little by little, from all countries and from all minds which Mr. Lowell more than almost any other...
...becomes more and more to be not only the shoemaker and tailor, but also the man. If that broadening is not always going on he is not working faithfully. So every time, action in any sphere makes real the larger sphere in which we live. Long service of any master makes us feel the higher masteries and sets us free to serve them. The longer we live truly, in time the more we breathe the breath of eternity. The more largely we work in our speciality the more we enter into a sense of the divineness of all work...
...There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever more and more obeyed on even to the distant...
...time a grocer, who, dying, left his property to swell the butcher's. She again married a cooper, and his moderate fortune was added to that of the butcher and the grocer, and so when Katharine, the much-husbanded, died, a year after her son took his master's degree, she had a considerable fortune to leave to her two sons, John and Thomas, and the latter son dying, it all came to John Harvard...