Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Notable Address at Commencement
Harvard Commencement week closed with Phi Beta Kappa Society meeting in Sanders Theatre. Rt Rev Henry C Potter gave oration and Richard Watson Gilder presented a poem. The event included a public theatre, a private Massachusetts Hall dinner, and electing new officers and members from classes of 1890 and 1891. Notable attendees included Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Gilder.
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Harvard
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Henry C. Potter
D.D
New York
Richard Watson Gilder
Sanders Theatre
Massachusetts Hall
Cleveland
Gilder
Boylston Hall
T. W. Higginson
Cambridge
Richard W. Gilder
Leslie Stephen
London
Brooke Herford
Boston
Stephen Salisbury
Ephraim Emerton
Silas M. Macrane
W. W. Goodwin
W. C. Lane
G. P. Wardner
Abbot
H.I. Perry
R. D. Brown
Norman Hapgood
M. W. Mather
A. W. Hodeman
L. H. Dow
G. Ruble
W. R. George
R. H. Ames
Duncan
F. Irvine
F. Swinburne
M. C. Pless
H. E. Burton
M. Eaton
A. C. Burnham
J. H. Boynton
Stebbins
C. B. Guick
R. L. Weeks
C. H. Page
C. L. Nix
F. C. Babbitt
O. W. Willard
C. H.C. Wright
L. Slattery
K. McKenzie
Spirit of Beauty in Flame and Dawn Across the Sky
A poetic meditation on beauty as a divine force that transforms day into night into eternal light. The verse traces dawn and dusk as living colors, elevates art and nature, praises Italy and Dante, and ends with hope for a new world guided by beauty.
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Nile
Italy
Dante
Porter
Death
Srrendor
Orient Sea
The Scholar and the State
A renowned oration urges scholars to serve the state amid three dangers: corrupt civic service, money-driven politics, and moral erosion in public life. It argues learning must unite with public duty, warn against cynicism, and stress the scholar’s role in upholding republican ideals and national welfare. It cites Plato, Marshall, Lecky, and Tocqueville to ground its call for virtue, vision, and courage in governance.
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Bishop Potter
Phi Beta Kappa
Ssoes
Plato
Socrates
Adeimantus
Jowett
Greece
James Bryce
de Tocqueville
Orouar
America
Cambridge
Republic
Lecky
Passim
Gibbon
Pertinax
Sulpicianus
Roman Empire
Chandos Library
Falls of Congress
Rome
Alfonso de Liguori
Mr. Carlyle
Oliver Cromwell
College
Church
Hooker
Ithuriel
Bacon
Commonwealth
Winthrop
Hancock
Adams
Sumner
James Russell Lowell
Scholar in Service to the State and Nation
A speech urging scholars to engage with public issues, defend truth, and educate Americans. It argues three forms of service: observing and distinguishing facts, interpreting truth for the public, and active citizenship, citing Matthew Arnold and Adam Smith while stressing the scholar’s duty to confront popular errors and participate in national life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Arnold
Adam Smith
Harvard
David A. Wells
Frederick Harrison
F. Harrison
Mr. Harrison
Harvard Yale boat race trip offered by region students
Many Harvard students and friends plan to attend the Harvard Yale boat race on June 27. They will ride the New York and New England railroad from Boston 12 noon to New London, returning the same evening by a special train. Round trip tickets priced at 2.50 dollars, with details at the street and depot foot of Summer Street.
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Harvard
J. Beaver-Webb
Trevor Park
Park
Zerega
Kathleen
Oyster Bay
Black Rock
Conn
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
Auchincloss
Katrina
Shamrock
Titania
Newport
New York Yacht Club
Viking
R. H. White
Boston
New York
Vineyard Haven
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MR. Gilder
Israel
Hiii
Imperial
Marshall
Henry Hitchcock
Supreme Court
Iask
U. S. Gov't Report
Lright
Craig Medicine Co
Passaic
N. J
Sam
Atalogue
Louse Furnishings
Washington
Superior Court
Essex County
Salem
Edward Burgess
State Street
G. W. Simmons & CO
North ST
Tate
Horace Partridge
Washington St
Cowdrey
Nepsune
South Boston Yacht Club
Providence
South Boston
Ferdinand
Arthur Fuller
Frolic
C. F. Morrill
Navarch
Frank Ferdinand
Recreation
J Bachelder
Magellan Cloud
I. Davis
W. H. Lyman
Dorcas L
B. F. Wheeler
Broad Sound
Fawn Bar
Hood
G. O. Taylor
Firmaime
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Ractan
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