FROM LOUIS LEVERETT, IN PARIS, TO
HARVARD TREMONT, IN BOSTON.
Individuals had come from the rich establishment at Lebanon, from Canterbury,
Harvard, and Alfred, and from all the other localities where this strange people have fertilized the rugged hills of New England by their systematic industry.
"But there is reason to believe that President Dunster sat in it, when he held the first Commencement at
Harvard College.
At the beginning of their acquaintance Hayward, as a member of so celebrated a university, had adopted a patronising attitude towards Weeks, who was a graduate of
Harvard; and when by chance the conversation turned upon the Greek tragedians, a subject upon which Hayward felt he spoke with authority, he had assumed the air that it was his part to give information rather than to exchange ideas.
Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or
Harvard. They soon relinquish this turbulence though, and when about three fourths grown, break up, and separately go about in quest of settlements, that is, harems.
Before the first of June, Gaston Cleric was offered an instructorship at
Harvard College, and accepted it.
in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my
Harvard.
They had had lunch together, and Aynesworth had taken a fancy to the boy--he was little more--fresh from
Harvard and full of enthusiasm.
Once only, just after
Harvard, he had spent a few gay weeks at Florence with a band of queer Europeanised Americans, dancing all night with titled ladies in palaces, and gambling half the day with the rakes and dandies of the fashionable club; but it had all seemed to him, though the greatest fun in the world, as unreal as a carnival.
.then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my
Harvard.'
The sweeping of that room was my college examination, and never did any youth pass an examination for entrance into
Harvard or Yale that gave him more genuine satisfaction.
It is on record that Theodore Roosevelt, at that time President of the United States, said in 1905 A.D., in his address at
Harvard Commencement: "We all know that, as things actually are, many of the most influential and most highly remunerated members of the Bar in every centre of wealth, make it their special task to work out bold and ingenious schemes by which their wealthy clients, individual or corporate, can evade the laws which were made to regulate, in the interests of the public, the uses of great wealth."