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...concludes as follows: "I hope that when another hundred and fifty years have passed away, some descendant of mine will say, as he lifts this cup, and reads the name it bears, 'He, too, loved his labor and those for whom he labored, and the students of the dead nineteenth century remembered their old teacher as kindly, as gracefully, as generously, as the youth of the earlier eighteenth century remembered old Father Flynt, the patriarch of all our Harvard tutors...
...hundred and nineteenth call of bonds of the five per cent. funded loan of 1881, continued at three and one-half per cent. from Aug. 12, 1881, has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury...
...recent writer says: "New Oxford has succeeded to old Oxford, and the nineteenth century is now dominant in the chief centre of British culture and scholastic life. Harvard University, in its way, has followed the changes which have been observed at Oxford. More and more the religious tests of the professorships have been relaxed or removed, until they have almost entirely disappeared. The community would not tolerate an atheist as the Harvard president any more than an atheist would be tolerated as the vice-chancellor of Oxford, because atheism has not yet been tolerated in good society; but an important...
...from 1760. Our list of annual orators does not begin until 1776, and it was not until 1786 that the poem was added. The first two orations (in 1776 and 1777) were in English, the third and fourth in Latin, and it was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the English language became generally used in the orations. The poems were about all English from the very first. In 1802 the faculty, fearing a gradual dying out of the Latin oration, prescribed the use of that language in all senior class day orations, and limited the exercises...
Scene : Primer geology class, 3333 A. D. Object lesson. Professor - "What is this which I hold in my' hand?" Class - "We are not prepared." Professor - "It is the tooth of a cat given to the college in the nineteenth century. How long tails had the cats in that age?" Class - "Seven and one-half feet." Professor - "Yes, this tooth proves that some were over twenty feet in length. What else may we learn from this?" Class - "That's as far as the lesson went." Professor - "Well, it also shows that cats could once drink milk. Now, man sometimes drinks milk...