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...Undergraduate exercises, President Eliot with great courtesy gracefully resigned his right to preside to the president of the senior class...
Shortly before three o'clock, 1,200 alumni and invited guests sat down to the collation. Judge Devens, president of the Alumni Association, presided. On his left were seated President Cleveland and his cabinet officers, and on his right President Eliot and the representatives of foreign universities. Dr. McKenzie was requested by Judge Devens to ask the blessing, after which all rose and joined in singing "St. Martin's" hymn. Judge Devens opened the speaking with a long and very able address...
President Cleveland: Mr. President and gentlemen: I find myself today in a company to which I am unused; and when I see the Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill...
...seat long ago. I am conscious of the infirmities of age, of health, of voice, which incapacitate of justice either to myself or to the occasion, and I am more than conscious that there are distinguished guests here from other colleges and from other climes who have a right to be heard, and that I enjoyed my right fifty years ago. Let me only in taking my seat, give honor to my alma mater on this birthday of hers in the presence of all her assembled sons, my heartfelt hopes and wishes and prayers for her ever continued and increasing...
...asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police...