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...behalf of Harvard University I want to thank you, Sir, and the other Delegates from Foreign Universities, for the honor you have done us by coming here. The ties of a common scholarship should be among the closest that bind together mankind, for they, know not time, place or nationality. The bond is universal and eternal. Men eminent by your achievements in literature, in history, in law and in science, bring us greetings from the older world of learning, and from our neighbors North and South, which we shall ever remember with pleasure and with pride...
...close of the last lecture in Government 1 in the New Lecture Hall yesterday morning President Lowell made a short address. This was the last lecture which he will deliver to the undergraduates and when he finished, in answer to the applause of the class he said "Thank you, gentlemen, very much. There is one saddening thought about this, as it is the last lecture I shall ever give...
...thank you for the greeting. You do not know what a change this is for me; giving up the pleasant life that I have thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas...
...thank you very much, gentlemen; this will be a greatly valued present...
...managing committee of the dining halls desire to express their thanks, through you, to the students who have kindly answered the questions recently put to them, and have in many cases furnished much valuable information by their suggestions and criticisms. The committee desire also to thank the CRIMSON and the Student Council for their aid in spreading news of the inquiry, and in suggesting to the students that they answer promptly the questions propounded to them...