Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great anniversary is over. The last speech has been said, the last round of applause has been heard. The anniversary will be long memorable in the history of American education. The distinguished visitors from foreign universities evidence the high interest which is felt in Harvard University among other schools of learning abroad. The friends and graduates of the university may now well feel proud that their beloved school has been enabled to carry to so successful a conclusion a celebration distinguished by so many remarkable features. Rarely, perhaps never, in the history of the college, have so great a number...
...Sundry ministers of the Gospel in New England" 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...
...universal; the temporary little by little fulfilling itself with the eternal. There was a discipline of the Christian Church larger than the discipline of the Puritans, in which the discipline of the Puritans had floated as the part floats in the whole. The discipline of the Puritans felt that which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience was larger than Whitfield. Dogma was larger than Henry Calvin; life was larger than theology, and so, one after another, in these which are the concentric spheres within which human nature...
...additional number of visitors seen in Cambridge last evening, evidenced the interest which is felt among the neighboring cities, in the great anniversary which we are no commemorating. But the postponement of the torchlight parade rendered the evening dull in comparison with what had been expected would occur. Under the circumstances, however, the postponement was eminently wise, notwithstanding the fact that the darkness of the evening would have rendered any torchlight or firework display exceptionally brilliant...
...been going on for some years and has been steadily increasing in earnestness. And now we look to see a period of freedom and good sense and sincerity and earnest belief in religious matters in the college. We still have a Plummer Professor, and his work still makes itself felt...