Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...From the earliest days of Massachusetts the ministers have been recognized as representing the chief element of learning, and their opinions have always been much valued on all matters. Even the legislature of the state has listened regularly once a year, until a few years ago, to a sermon by some eminent clergyman, usually discussing most frankly some important political question. From 1634 to 1884 a sermon was preached every year before the General Court of Massachusetts, and usually this sermon was printed and widely scattered over the state. In 1884 the law providing for this annual sermon was repealed...
...earliest religion of which there is any trace, was one in which the principal manifestations of nature were personified and worshipped. This was the period of the Vedas. The early religion of nature degenerated into a degraded ritualistic system with which began the growth of asceticism and belief in pantheism. At this time there came a number of sects, each one of which offered its own way to heaven. There is no doubt that there was much that was holy and noble about many of these teachings. The outgrowth of this period was the idea of the Supreme Being...
...president Harrison announces that the plan of his lectures to be given at Leland Stanford University will be as follows: after the introductory lecture there will be some discussion of the colonial charters and constitution; then the organization of the states and their earliest constitutions will be considered, and finally the Constitutional Convention will be taken up. It has not been determined whether the lectures will be given daily or once a week. Mr. Harrison will remain at the university till about May first, and will employ his leisure visiting points of interest on the coast...
...aware of the rapid progress and astonishing success of the Society, which enlarged its numbers and became a legal corporation in 1892; but probably few realize how largely this progress and success are due to the kindness of the members of the Harvard board of instructors. Ever since the earliest days of the society, professors and instructors alike have willingly offered their services for a remuneration which has of itself been but a slight incentive to undertake the work; but their reward has been great in the gratitude of the society. When the Annex becomes Radcliffe College, it will still...
...meeting last night of the executive committee of the Harvard Republican Club it was voted to ask Governor McKinley of Ohio to speak at his earliest convenience, in Sanders theatre, to the members of the club and their invited guests...