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Receiving to-day with abundant gratitude the high honors of the university, I bear to her my renewed allegiance and I salute her officers and my fellow graduates with cordial thankfulness and fraternal regard. It is the record of history that in the earlier days when my predecessors in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collation of Alumni Association. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

It is a striking fact that during the ten years or so following the coming of Winthrop, the two great English Universities sent into this wilderness fully a hundred of their best men, to strengthen the purpose and tone the spirit of the new settlement. It is not too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gift of the Old Cambridge to the New. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

On leaving University Hall, the procession moved along the principal avenues within the college grounds, through the gateway between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, and, passing through the lines of the escort formed by the undergraduates, entered the Congregational Church. The galleries of the edifice had been reserved for the ladies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Birthday in 1836. | 10/15/1886 | See Source »

It often happens that students when about to leave college, are heard to deplore the fact that their education has been so much less broad and complete than they could have desired, and that certain sides of themselves seem altogether untouched by their college training, and certain subjects utterly uninvestigated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1886 | See Source »

POSITION OF COLLEGE MENin the matter, there is a very erroneous, though popular, impression abroad. College men, certainly Harvard men, do not shun politics as a pestilence, as an unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/7/1886 | See Source »

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