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Postmaster-General Key was the next speaker, and again the hall was made to ring with the applause. He spoke very briefly as follow...
...next speaker was Carl Schurz, who, after alluding to the fact that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
...College than any preceding class for many a long year. As a prominent professor, who had the best opportunities for observation, remarked, "It was a class composed of men who were either very good or very poor; there were few mediocre men." The editor's chair is not the speaker's stand, or we should be tempted into speaking perhaps with unbecoming warmth of our departed friends' many excellences. But we cannot but remember that it was the class which threw so much life into some of the highest literary courses in college. If we remember rightly, Greek 9 (AEschylus...
...stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that I am to hear a speaker who holds views opposed to my own, I am bound to sit still and listen courteously to whatever he may have to say, and it is my own fault if I hear anything I don't like, But when I go to a lecture on Fine Arts, I feel myself...
...meeting of the McGill foot-Ball Club on 23d November, the question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been...