Word: shared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next, we give thanks and praises to Massachusetts, colony, province, commonwealth. Hers was the far-seeing and far reaching act we celebrate; hers was the generative deed, done in loneliness and poverty, but in faith. Today 50,000,000 of people in wealth and strength and liberty share its fruits...
After all, it has come to this. The people of the United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...
...fitting then, as we have said above, that Graduates' Day should end our celebration, and the greatest zest and energy will mark to-day. There is no anti-climax. The Law School has done her share, the Undergraduates on Saturday showed themselves worthy of the name of men; yesterday all joined in obedience to their religious instinct, but to-day we are to see a feeling of brotherhood and cordiality rule supreme throughout the Harvard domain. Hearty hand-shaking on every side, memories that have slept during many years of work and thought, will be brought once more vividly before...
...This defect, it is true, prevails in most of the very good orchestras, but seldom to such a degree as in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Notwithstanding the lack of precision of some of the performers, the second number was well given and deserved more applause than fell to its share. The Largo of Haendel was also very well played, the solo part being taken by Mr. Kneisel and rendered in rather too mechanical and unsympathetic a style. Mr. Gericke did not respond to the encore given to the piece. The fourth Symphony of Beethoven was very well played...
...undergraduates of Harvard are to do their share in adding to the success of the festivities of this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The programme as now completed is well understood by all; it only remains for us to carry it out with enthusiasm and with a thorough sense of loyalty to our present home...