Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would not consent to their marriage no matter how much the lovers urged. They parted never to meet again. She remained unmarried and the event had a lasting influence on Cowper perhaps tending to make him more somber. His father now died in 1756 and soon after his best friend Sir Russell drowned in the Thames, and Cowper felt that he was left alone in the world...
...indication of the interest that the graduates of long ago still have in the University. After reading this very interesting letter, one cannot help thinking, how much better it was to place these relics in the gymnasium, where they will always be prized, rather than present them to some friend who might not have known how to appreciate them. It is greatly to be hoped that others will follow this example...
...combined a feeling of reverence. We looked up to him as one of the links which bound us to the past of Harvard and inspired us with love and loyalty. All, then, must feel this loss with inexpressible sorrow; but the memory of the man as teacher, pastor and friend will not be easily forgotten...
...only did his impressive sermons attract the students to the chapel, but his overflowing kindness drew them to his home. He was pastor as well as preacher The students felt that in him they had a friend and counsellor in whom they might confide and trust implicitly. Dr. Peabody was the most popular instructor of the college, and the cheers for him at class-day were always the heartiest and the longest of the occasion. Indeed even to the present time, classes whose members had never been under his instruction still cheered for the venerable doctor...
...greater amount of news does not happen before the public gaze. A reporter, if he is to give an accurate account of these secret events must be indefatigable in exhausting every source of information and verifying every rumor before he places trust in it. As for tact, it makes friends, and every friend is an unpaid assistant...