Word: felling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Winslow and then Case drove the ball far out into centre field for a home run. Highlands struck Carter out. Then Stephenson hit a low liner toward Whittemore. It seemed impossible that he could reach it but he just caught it before it touched the ground though he fell in the attempt...
Bishop Lawrence preached the Baccalaureate Sermon to the class of ninety-four yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel. He took his text from the thirteenth chapter of Acts, "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers." This, he said, was the best thing that could have been said of David, "he served his own generation;" and to serve our own time is the best that any one of us can do. We are not called upon to worry now about the questions which seem...
...country? What is his political duty? Here, as before, we do not consider the specialist, but rather the average man. We have here before us, in Memorial Hall, a perpetual reminder of the patriotism of our fathers who "served their own generation by the will of God, and fell on sleep." Now how can we serve our country, how can we too be patriots? Each one of us has something to do with the moulding of public opinion and the choosing of our leaders. Let us all stand for national honesty and for justice. If we hear of corruption...
...told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which was common to our Harvard soldiers...
Memorial Service. To commemorate the sons of Harvard who fell in the War. Sanders Theatre...