Oration, poem and speeches delivered at the general alumni meeting held at the College of California, Oakland, Cal., Tuesday, May 31st, 1864Bancroft & Company, 1864 - 96 стор. |
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alma mater Alumni Meeting American battle beautiful birth blessed boys brethren brothers called cara sposa cause of education City civilization College of California common culture Dartmouth Dear Sir Demosthenes Doctor duties earth EDWARD STANLY Faculty feel gathering genius gentlemen give Government graduates Hamilton hand Harvard hear heart heaven HENRY DURANT honor hope hour Hugh Miller institutions interests invitation JEREMIAH DAY Judge judiciary labor land laughter and applause lawyers learning look Marysville mind mines moral mountain never noble Oakland occasion old red sandstone oration Pacific Coast patriotism present President privilege Prof profes profession public schools respond rich San Francisco sentiment Sherman Day society song soul speak STANFORD UNIVERSITY tell thing thought tion to-day to-night toast truth Union Virginia City wealth Williams word Yale youth
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Сторінка 7 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Сторінка 16 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Сторінка 90 - I knew Mr. Herbert well, and know that he had many heavenly speculations, and was a divine poet ; but I hope the world will not take him to be an inspired prophet, and therefore I license the whole book.
Сторінка 68 - Would it be possible to aid by any artificial means the rich feast that everyona here has imbibed this evening — the rich intellectual feast imbibed from all sources, and all professions. A word in regard to the list, which was deemed interminable by some of our friends. It is a long list, but it is still not large enough. Some of the names even are not sufficiently multiplied ; and I wish to make a complaint in regard to my own name, which occurs on that list three times only. I protest against...
Сторінка 45 - Now, we may have different views in regard to some features connected with the great cause of education, but that does not hinder our working for it. It does not harm the cause of education in the least because Yale, and Harvard, and Princeton, and Columbia, and other colleges that I could name, are under peculiar influences, denominational or otherwise. I would not say one word that would discourage the utmost liberality from having the broadest foundation in this institution ; but at the same time...
Сторінка 53 - ... snow, lift themselves toward heaven more grandly than ever did Olympus, your wondrous harbor and Golden Gate are ampler than any Roman port, or even the historic Piraeus of the Athenians. Oh! wonderful California; so beautiful in thy youth, so youthful in thy beauty — esto perpetua, be thou eternal. No history records so rich, so grand, so fair a land; behold her sitting like a queen beside the sea, bearing in her right hand the peak of Shasta upon the north, while in her left are clustering...
Сторінка 56 - ... never again to snub the bar, and wound up by saying, in a most pleasant manner, that if he had known the Doctor was coming over here to crack a joke upon his beloved profession, he would have remained one day longer, last week, at the Geysers, with Doctor Bellows, and put him in the Witches' Cauldron, or he should have put the speaker in. Thanking the audience for their kind attention, the Judge then resumed his seat, amid cheers and applause from all the gentlemen present. THE PRESIDENT. —...
Сторінка 65 - ... languages, I think there is little danger that we shall attempt strictly to pursue the study of living languages, merely lor the sake of expressing in different ways our ideas, rather than to study language as a science — to study the facts for the sake of the facts as truth. But, Mr. President, I believe that I am waxing somewhat didactic, so, thanking the meeting and you, Mr. President, for the honor you have conferred upon me by inviting me to address the meeting, I take my seat. THK PRESIDENT....
Сторінка 49 - ... reciprocal in this case ; for it is necessary for the development of more feet, the generation of more feet, that we should have a mining college. Mr. President, if you wish to see how this diadem of jewels will sparkle, sir ; if you will be good enough to set it in motion, you will see its brilliancy. THE PRESIDENT. — There is a gentleman here present who was present at a meeting of the Alumni of Hamilton College, in the State of New York, some time since, and who, I notice, on that occasion...
Сторінка 76 - ... the nurseries of colleges, I hardly need invoke the aid of all the graduates of colleges and universities here in behalf of the public schools of our State. The best and shortest way in which to make this college worthy of the State, is to foster the public schools which must develop the minds that are to come here to be polished off. I think that it is an indisputable fact, that in those States where the public schools are the best sustained, the most students come forward to fill the colleges....