Word: millenium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McCosh knows, and knew when he accepted the invitation to be present at our quarter-millenium, that Harvard had become the exponent of liberality in religious and secular education; he knew that the experiment had proved a success, or at least, that it had proved an apparent success, both in the increased number of students and the increased wealth and influence of the college. He knew all this as well as any man in America; and of all men in America he was most opposed to, and most afraid of it. It was out of the question, therefore, that...
...collegiate millenium will find overgrown class-prejudice merged into fellowship which knows no class; it will dawn upon greater accomplishment, because it will dawn upon more advanced opportunities; upon grander prospects, because upon immovable union of action...
...undergraduate anniversary committee have presented to the university for ratification the plan which they have drawn up for the celebration of undergraduates day at the approaching quarter millenium. The plan calls for an enlargement of the committee in order that the work may be carried out more successfully. But the celebration proposed is of such a character that its success will necessitate a unanimous and cheerful support of the committee by the students. That this end may be attained the plan will be submitted to the classes in order that it may receive the ratification of each, and that...
...knowledge grows into the world of ideality. University life has shown itself in history to be a success by the fact that all great reforms have sprung from it as a centre." Rev. E. E. Hale then spoke as follows: "In its pride over the completion of a quarter millenium, the college attempts an enlargement of its religious privileges. Nowhere have I witnessed a grander service than the daily morning chapel service heartily conducted by a thousand gentlemen. But as I look over this sea of faces, I ask myself, 'how shall I be brought into closer sympathy with these...
...three lower classes are to call class meetings this week, in order that suitable representatives may be chosen to assist in making plans for the celebration. It is hoped of the co-operation of the alumni and undergraduates thus secured to make the occasion fitting to commemorate the quarter millenium of the oldest and the largest college in the country...