Capitolo 1
"TIS SESSANTA YEARS SINCE THEN"
ADDRESS OF
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Founders' day, January 16 th 1913
"'TIS SESSANTA YEARS SINCE THEN"
There is in the alone one now same-assigned for my part in this occasion
a lot of obstacles to cover,--the time it is short, and I have to go far. It did me
now, therefore, it submits everybody that I had proposed to say when I accepted Your
invitation, there nobody spatial would remain for preliminaries. Still anything
of that character is to place. I will try to make to reassume him/it. [1]
As the legend or text of that that I have in mind to submit, I have given, the
words "'Tis Sessanta years since then." As some here undoubtedly the call, this is
the second or subordinate title of the first novel of Walter Scott,
"Waverley" that it brought him fame. Gives to the world in 1814,--hard on
one century ago,--"Waverley" it said of the last Stuart I strive to recover the
crown of Gran Britain,--that of "The' 45." It so it happens that Scott
period of retrospective look is just now also more proper than my case,
since I entered Harvard as a student of year 1853--"sixty
years since then!" You/he/she can fairly be affirmed that the life of school ends, and that that
in thereto of the antithetical distinction has called the life thinking and it acts
it starts, the day the youth passes the threshold of the institution of
more advanced education. For him, the responsibilities of the life start then.
Before that confused, things with him become since then,
consecutive,--one sequence. Insensitively he puts away childish things.
[1] owing to his/her length, this "Address" it was compressed on consignment,
a hour that only occupies. It is printed here in the form in which it was
prepared,--the parts omitted on consignment that you/he/she is included.
In those days as me I now suppose, the harkened of youth of university to it inhaled
bawls. Mr. that Walter Scott has belonged to a preceding generation. Having held
the near attention of a happy world a great deal as the more succeeded
history-cashier of his really or some preceding period, he had passed away the