Report of the Centennial Celebration of the Birth of George Peabody: Held at Peabody, Mass., Monday, February 18, 1895 |
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Abbott American Applause Appleton Baltimore band banquet benefactions benefit birth of George birthday blessed Board of Trustees born Boston bounty celebration Chairman charity Charles Francis Adams church citizens Committee Commonwealth of Massachusetts debt due due from present Education Fund eloquent England England town flags fortune FRANCIS H funeral generosity George Pea George Peabody glory Governor Harvard heart honor human hundred hundredth anniversary interest kindly Ladies and Gentlemen land Library Lieutenant-Governor lives memory ment nation native town noble O. C. Marsh occasion orator Peabody Donation Fund Peabody Education Fund Peabody gave Peabody Institute PEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY Peabody's gift philanthropist pleasure present to future President Proctor purpose Queen Victoria received RESPONSE Roger Wolcott Salem sentiment South Danvers spirit Street success Sutton tion to-day toast town of Danvers town of Peabody W. J. ASHLEY wealth William Bourne Winthrop wise Yale
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Page 49 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 42 - ... and the income thereof used and applied in your discretion for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education among the young of the more destitute portions of the Southern and Southwestern States of our Union; my purpose being that the benefits intended shall be distributed among the entire population, without other distinction than their needs and the opportunities of usefulness to them.
Page 21 - My object being to ameliorate the condition of the poor and needy of this great metropolis, and to promote their comfort and happiness...
Page 19 - In acknowledgment of the payment of that debt by the generation which preceded me in my native town of Danvers, and to aid in its prompt future discharge, I give to the inhabitants of that town the sum of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, for the promotion of knowledge and morality among them.
Page 18 - ... world. They found the portion of the Crystal Palace assigned to our country unprepared for the specimens of art and industry which they had brought with them ; naked and unadorned, by the side of the neighboring arcades and galleries, fitted up with elegance and splendor by the richest governments in Europe. The English press began to launch its too ready sarcasms at the sorry appearance which brother Jonathan seemed likely to make, and all the exhibitors from this country, and all who felt an...
Page 42 - I do this with the earnest hope and in the sincere trust, that with God's blessing upon the gift and upon the deliberations and future action of yourselves and your General Agent, it may enlarge the sphere of usefulness already entered upon and prove a permanent and lasting boon, not only to the Southern States, but to the whole of our dear country, which I have ever loved so well, but never so much as now in my declining years...
Page 42 - ... Southern States, but to the whole of our dear country, which I have ever loved so well, but never so much as now in my declining years, and at this time (probably the last occasion I shall ever have to address you) as I look back over the changes and the progress of nearly three-quarters of a century.
Page 18 - ... began to be suspected that Brother Jonathan was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been thought. He had contributed his full share, if not to the splendor, at least to the utilities of the exhibition. In fact, the leading journal at London, with a magnanimity which did it honor, admitted that England had derived more real benefit from the contributions of the United States than from those of any other country.
Page 61 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 40 - ... of one State or section of the Union from those of another; but that it shall be so conducted, throughout its whole career, as to teach political and religious charity, toleration, and beneficence, and prove itself to be, in all contingencies and conditions, the true friend of our inestimable Union, of the salutary institutions of free Government, and of liberty regulated by law.