A Record of the Commemoration, November Fifth to Eighth, 1886, on the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard CollegeJ. Wilson and Son, University Press, 1887 - 379 strani |
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ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL Albert Allen Alumni ALVAN FISHER anniversary Arthur Association Augustus Bedford Benjamin Brookline called Cambridgeport celebration Charles Chief Marshal Cleveland Committee of Arrangements Concord Coolidge Court Davis delegate Devens Dorchester DWIGHT Edward Edwin Emmanuel College England Everett Faculties Francis Frank Franklin Frederic Frederick gentlemen George graduates Gray Hall Harvard College Harvard Law School Herbert HOAR Holmes honor institution invited guests Jamaica Plain James John John Harvard Joseph Lawrence lawyers learning Lincoln lives LL.B LL.D Lowell MANDELL CREIGHTON Massachusetts master Milton N.Y. Boston N.Y. Cambridge N.Y. New York Nathaniel Newton Oliver Wendell Holmes orator Peabody President Eliot Prof Professor Puritan Quincy Robert Roxbury Russell Salem Samuel Sanders Theatre Smith Somerville teacher teaching THAYER things Thomas tickets tion to-day truth Univ University Walter Warren Washington Wendell William Henry Winthrop Worcester Yale Yale College young
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Stran 199 - LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEgat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies: leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Stran 199 - And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Stran 254 - Of all Christian sects this was the first, which, during its prosperity as well as its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration...
Stran 220 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Stran 297 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Stran 201 - ... should never cease from among them or their descendants in the commonwealth they were building up. In the midst of such fears and such tumults Harvard College was born, and not Marina herself had a more blusterous birth or a more chiding nativity. The prevision of those men must have been as clear as their faith was steadfast. Well they knew and had laid to heart the wise man's precept, " Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not go ; for she is thy life.
Stran 140 - When any scholar is able to read Tully, or such like classical Latin author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the college, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications.
Stran 267 - A shelter for the hunted head, For the starved laborer toil and bread. Power, at thy bounds, Stops and calls back his baffled hounds.
Stran 72 - Germany, science is gradually drawing legal history into its sphere. The facts are being scrutinized by eyes microscopic in intensity and panoramic in scope. At the same time, under the influence of our revived interest in philosophical speculation, a thousand heads are analyzing and generalizing the rules of law and the grounds on which they stand. The law has got to be stated over again; and I venture to say that in fifty years we shall have it in a form of which no man could have dreamed fifty...
Stran 230 - Weimar ? Material success is good, but only as the necessary preliminary of better things. The measure of a nation's true success is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation of mankind. There is no other, let our candidates flatter us as they may.