Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The 250,000 girls and boys in the secondary schools are getting a fuller view of this incomparable character than the younger children can reach. They learn of his great part in that immortal federal convention of 1787, of his inestimable services in organizing and conducting through two presidential terms...
Rev. William Lawrence conducted a brief but impressive service of worship, after which Justin Winsor, librarian of the University, delivered an appropriate historicol address. This address was a model of its kind, the latter half of it being especially admirable, Seldom is an address heard in which the thought is...
The Advocate presents a new number, rather above the average in interest. Under "The Week," Harvard's athletic outlook is discussed. The writer takes a gloomy view of the coming season, and calls upon the college to check the successive defeats of recent years by more earnest and general co...
Rev. William Lawrence preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from John xx. 27-29. He said that every age has its own appropriate character, but to no age since the resurrection has the character of Thomas appealed as it does to this. Thomas was a doubting...
Early in the life of Jesus when he would go into Judea to Lazarus, in spite of the dangers Thomas exclaims impulsively, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." His character was an impulsive, mercurial, skeptical one, but when appealed to by a demand for a great...