Word: amens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debate of the Union last night was well attended and very interesting. The question was "Resolved, that the enfranchisement of the Negro, as accomplished by the 15th amen linnet, was a mistake." The secret ballot on the merits of the question resulted in 13 votes for the affirmative, and 43 for the negative. J. M. Merriam, '86, opened for the affirmative, and B. G. Davis, '85, for the negative. These gentlemen were followed by L. M. Garrison, '88, aff., and P. L. Sternbergh, '87, neg. The vote on the merits of the arguments of principal dispatants stood...
...friend says he has an instructor who begins to call the roll just as the choir at the chapel sings the last "amen...
...summoned, lately, for leaving chapel before the choir finished the "amen...
...makes itself conspicuous - all these are breaches of good taste and good breeding which are designed to create an ill impression in the mind of a beholder. Nor ought any one educated in a Christian land fail to wait reverently to the close of the benediction and the responsive amen without motion toward departure. Nothing short of this becomes a house dedicated to the worship...
Laughter streaming through life's loud amen...