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...Hall, at the Kimball House. Thursday afternoon a reception was given by Mr. Grant, at which the clubs gave a short concert, and in the evening another reception at the Capitol City Club was attended. Leaving at 2. a. m. Friday, a stop of six hours was made in Washington, and New Haven was reached at five Sunday afternoon...
...banquet in New York, Tuesday, in celebration of Washington's inauguration, President Eliot answered to "Our schools and colleges" as follows...
...elementary schools of the country brought before your view. Each unit of that mass speaks of a glad birth, a brightened home, a mother's pondering heart, a father's careful joy. In all that multitude every little heart bounds and every eye shines at the name of Washington...
...Next picture to yourselves the 60,000 students in colleges and universities-selected youth of keen intelligence, wide reading and high ambition. They are able to compare Washington with the greatest men of other times and countries, and to appreciate the uniquequality of his renown...
...This local commemoration of one great event in the life of Washington and of the United States is well, but it is nothing compared with the incessant memorial of him which the schools and colleges of the country maintain from generation to generation...