Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are many others of equal value and interest, some singularly bold compared with the handwriting of to-day, some singularly cramped and irregular. Perhaps the most interesting of all is that of Wm. Gallison. It is evidently the close of a letter sent home from school, and beside the signature is a drawing, here copied, evidently representing a student of the period. The letter is dated...
About twenty students at the boat-house yesterday morning saw two close races between a graduate and an undergraduate crew. The race was rowed over the regular scratch-race course, from the old coal wharf to the lower bridge. The following is the make-up of the two crews...
...Honor." Then followed Arthur Foote's beautiful composition, "Into the Silent Land," which was composed especially for the occasion. This was sung by a graduate quartet consisting of Dr. S. W. Langmaid, '59, Geo. L. Osgood, '66, G. S. Lamson, '77, and A. M. Barnes, '71. At the close of the service the choir sung the "Sanctus," written by Mr. Osgood for the occasion. Luther's "A Mighty Fortress" was next given by the full choir, and formed a fitting introduction...
...answered him. The question was who should be counted true subjects of the Christian sacraments. When Increase Mather, with his son Cotton was defeated, it was a sign that the earnestness which existed in human life at-large had made itself felt within the church, and that the hard, close envelope of church discipline had been broken open...
...walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal and eternal truth and duty, the essential unity of all good things shall be made manifest and clear. How can we better close than with these words out of the same epistle to the Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast into the end." There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college...