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...eminent German scholar, the late Professor Conrad von Maurer of Munich. I am presenting it to the Harvard College library. The collection contains numerous works devoted to German history, and it is my desire to set these apart, and to add to them, until their number shall reach ten thousand volumes. These ten thousand volumes would have a book plate of their own and would form in the Harvard library a special collection of works on the history of Germany and of German civilization. They would be but a small portion of what we should hope to possess some...
...Hall was already filled, when President Eliot introduced the speaker. He said in part: Our system of justice, the Common Law, is of Germanic origin and is a flexible and living law of a thousand years' growth. While the Roman law is older, still it shows no such uninterrupted continuity, no such persistent individuality. Our system is founded on principles, which were evident in early English justice and which, though changed and developed, have, in general character, remained constant. Early justice was rough, and the county-court, perhaps, a disorderly public-meeting; yet in its publicity lay the root...
...number of college graduates now residing in New York is over 25000--enough to decide the issue in a close contest. Besides these, several thousand qualified voters are registered in the different universities and colleges as graduate or undergraduate students, yet it is an undoubted and regrettable fact, that a considerable proportion of the New York college graduates never exercise the suffrage, that most precious and least irksome of civic functions. To persuade these college-bred citizens to register and vote; to make plain to them the magnitude of the issue and the value of the individual; to supply them...
...thousand more their loyal vows have plighted...
...thousand more low at her feet have kneeled...