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President Devens: Brethren, At our table the Commonwealth of Massachusetts stands rather as a host than as a guest; so that I shall follow the usual custom, even before announcing our chieftest guest, to give you - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the legitimate representative of the little colony which founded Harvard College. I shall respectfully invite Gov. Robinson to respond...
...connection with the grand jubilee of Harvard fifty years ago. I remember well doing not a little hard work on that occasion, as secretary of the Committee of Arrangements, and it was my pleasure, sir, to lead off more than fifteen hundred of the Alumni. There may have been rather more still on this occasion, but there were then over fifteen hundred of the Alumni whom I lead in the procession to our Anniversary festival and exercises...
...unable to read the deeper meanings of her history. Our college is not quick to believe the highest things about herself. Our Harvard way is, as a whole, to read life on its negative side more than on its positive. We think of such enlargements as I have depicted rather as escapes from bigotry and superstition than as possible entrances into deeper faith. We dwell more on the exposure of error than on the discovery of truth in spiritual things. We are more afraid of believing something which we ought not to believe than of not believing something which...
During the second half Harvard played rather better, while the Wesleyan backs became a good deal looser in their catching. The ball went down towards Wesleyan's goal, and on a poor kick by one of their half-backs, Holden got the ball and carried it through the whole Wesleyan team, rushers and all, making a touchdown, from which Woodman kicked the goal...
...Wesleyan got it again on our ten yard line. They worked the ball from there to within six feet of our line; but here Harvard got the ball and Porter kicked fair, giving Wesleyan the ball twenty yards from our goal. Holden got a fair catch and made rather a wild pass to Butler, who muffed the ball; Harding, however, got it. Porter got in a long kick up the field, which the full-back fumbled, and before he could recover himself, Holden caught him, and threw him heavily. There was another hole in our rush line just here, which...