Word: cherish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Carpenter spoke of the difference between England and America in the fellowship of their churches. At Oxford he was not allowed to address the Y. M. C. A. because he was a Unitarian. He urged the members to cherish and love this fellowship between churches of all denominations, which he had noticed as so remarkable at Harvard...
...honor to the memory of the sons of Harvard who gave themselves to the country in the war for national existence, the war for justice, law and liberty; the foundations of civilization. They have left us a noble example and an heroic tradition. It is well to cherish and to hand on that tradition, that it may quicken the immagination and lift the spirit of each new generation of Harvard...
...present method. When we consider all this and begin to realize how enwrapped he was in all that tended to our good, we cannot think of a more fitting tribute than to erect the new religious building to testify the deep love we have borne him and shall always cherish as one of our few best treasures...
...very appreciative. "The life of Whittier," he says, "affects us rather as singularly fortunate in the completeness with which he was able to do his whole duty, to possess his soul, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Lovers of New England will cherish his memory as that of a man in whom the virtues of this soil, both for public and for private life, shine most purely...
...allying themselves with the humane interests of the university the religious societies would lose much of that seclusive character which prevents them from taking a firmer hold on the more liberal portion of the college. The aim of the proposers of the second plan is, then, to cherish the religious and the humane interests of the college side by side to the end that greater strength might come to each through contact with the other and that the work of the university might assume a broader character...