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...Godolphin Arabian (sometimes called the Godolphin Barb) was said to have been pulling a water-cart in Paris when he was promoted and sent to England, where he was presented to the Earl of Godolphin. † And He sighed deeply in His spirit and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say unto you, there shall no sign be given unto this generation. earth, denied Christ three times before He was crucified...
...What Is the Reason?" The nation's first postwar generation continued to converse in Latin, to eat their breakfast of dinner leftovers (olla podrida, alias slum), to debate such questions as: "What is the reason that though all rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not increase?" By the turn of the century, Noah Webster, '78, had moved into a house up the street to begin his dictionary, and Eli Whitney, '92, was beginning his career as inventor and one of the great forces in the Industrial Revolution...
...doth the little busy...
With the new president in their midst, the notables marched into the vaulted auditorium of Woolsey Hall and there, as Yalemen had done at the opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition...
Pioneer in the composition of English congregational hymns was Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Author of Our* God, our help in ages past, often voted the greatest English hymn of all, Watts was also a writer of hymns for children, authored the well-known query, "How doth the little busy bee . . ." and the warning that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." But his touch for juvenile hymns is not always suited to modern taste. For example...