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Frank Fay was the youngest son of Willard and Charlotte Howe, and was born in Framingham on June 1, 1868. He was educated in the common schools of Framingham and was a graduate of the Framingham academy and high school, class of '87. The year 1887-88 he spent at the Phillips. Exeter Academy, entering Harvard in the autumn. Throughout his course at Harvard he took excellent stand, paying especial attention to the classics and to history. At graduation he received honorable mention in Greek and in history, and among the commencement parts was assigned a disquisition. Howe...
...even more true of religious faith. Absolutely no progress has been made by a people without religion. No civilized nation can exist or has existed without it. It is absurd to cite cases of individuals who are rationalists, and to say "these men have existed without religion." Religion was born in them, they were brought up under its influence and surrounded by its advocates. They cannot avoid its effects. So since religious faith is essential to our progress, even more perhaps than trust in our senses, can there be anything more rational than to accept its testimony? Wisdom can never...
...seems sometimes as if faith in God was something outside of ourselves, whereas reason is something within us which we must of our very nature accept. In every man of every race there is born the spirit of faith in a God. It is just as necessary to his existence as the faith in his own reason and he is as much bound to accept...
...duty demands, who is appreciative and lovingly enters into the life of each one whom he or she meets. We are more apt to notice this trait in the child with its subtle charm and winsome ways, "the gracious boy who doth adorn the world into which he is born." Grace is the fairest, the rarest gift of life. We are often content if we are told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe and just, but there would be no grace...
...Born in 1853, Dorpfeld received an education as an architect. He was destined, however, to study old buildings, not to construct new. At the age of twenty-four he was sent to Olympia, and since that time he has been constantly engaged in archaeological investigation of every kind. He has conducted numerous excavations and has made careful and valuable examinations...