Addresses at the Inauguration of Jared Sparks, LL. D., as President of Harvard College: Wednesday, June 20, 1849J. Bartlett, 1849 - 60 páginas |
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accepit Alma Mater Ameri ancient classics animo annos Burton Hist Cambridge character charge cherished collegiate system committee common schools Corporation culture deeply destiny discipline duties ejus ence enim enlarge exercises faculties favored free schools Gore Hall habemus hæc Harvard College Harvard Hall heart honor hope hopes and fears hujus collegii illo important INAUGURAL ADDRESS insti institution instruction interest JARED SPARKS JOHN BARTLETT JUNE 20 kind of study laboribus labors lecting leges liberty love of excellence magno mathematics mind moral motives muneris munus neque ness nobis nostrum notum nunc objects omnes omni ORATION Overseers popular education præ PRESIDENT SPARKS principles quæ quam quibus rebus requisitions salvere jubemus SENIOR CLASS spirit student success sumus sunt taught thought throng tion Treasurer truth undergraduates University UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unquam vate verbis viri Webb wreath young gentlemen youth
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Página 8 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 30 - Turn pater Anchises lacrimis ingressus obortis ; 'O nate, ingentem luctum ne quaere tuorum ; Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata, neque ultra Esse sinent. Nimium vobis Romana propago Visa potens, superi, propria haec si dona fuissent. Quantos ille virum magnam Mavortis ad urbem Campus aget gemitus ! Vel quae, Tiberine, videbis Funera...
Página 15 - ... with ancient custom and in the name of the Overseers, I do now invest you with the government and authority of that institution, to be exercised in the same manner and to the same extent as has been heretofore done by your predecessors in office. This charter, with the seal and keys of the University, I deliver to you as badges of authority, confiding that you will exercise and administer the same according to the usages of the institution, and in obedience to the laws and constitution of the...
Página 15 - Sir : You having been duly elected president of Harvard College, in compliance with ancient custom, and in the name of the Overseers, I do now invest you with the government and authority of that institution, to be exercised in the same manner and to the same extent as has been heretofore done by your predecessors in office.
Página 28 - God, and in perfect charity with the world, his last years presented a fair picture to the eye, and realized the fine and wellknown description of the classical moralist: " Aptissima omnino sunt arma senectutis, artes exercitationesque virtutum...
Página 17 - ... interest in the success of her common schools, I may be allowed to suggest that more practical demonstrations of that interest, and the manifestation of a desire for their advancement, in all suitable ways, would greatly tend to promote the prosperity of both these essential departments of education. The mass of our children and youth must begin and finish their education in the district schoolhouse. There the children of the poor, mingling with the children of the rich, must gather the treasures...
Página 55 - ... knowledge which may be turned to account in the common affairs of life, but rather a complete training and exercise of the powers which are to be used through life.
Página 11 - THE EXECUTION. Long live old Harvard ! Lo, her rushing train Greets a new sign-board stretched across the plain ; While the bell rings, — (and that the bell shall do Till Charles shall drop his worn-out channel through,) — It gently hints to every cur that barks, Here comes the engine, — don't you see the Sparks ? How changed this scene ! The forest path is clear ; That mighty engine finds no Indian here ! The world's great teachers quit their native Alps To fill the skulls once trembling for...
Página 37 - Theorists may talk or dream of a complete education ; there is no such thing in reality. Life itself is a school, in which every man learns till his waning glass runs out. Experience teaches more than the college; the daily wonders of nature and the stirring world, more than books. In colleges we lay the foundation, we begin the work, and our main concern is, that it be well begun.
Página 7 - ORDER OF EXERCISES IN THE CHURCH. I. VOLUNTARY ON THE ORGAN, BY MR. WEBB. II. GLORIA. III. PRAYER, BY THE REV. DR. WALKER. IV. ADDRESS AND INDUCTION INTO OFFICE, BY HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR BRIGGS. V. REPLY, BY PRESIDENT SPARKS. VI. BENEDICTUS. VII. ORATION IN LATIN, BY CHARLES FRANCIS CHOATE, OF THE SENIOR CLASS. VIII. LATIN HYMN, BY FREDERICK ATHEARN LANE, OF THE SENIOR CLASS. Quantos honores ferre nos Debemus, O Deus, Salutis et vitse Dator, Qui duxeris bene Nostros patres in heec loca, Eos et...