Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eleven received an enthusiastic send-off yesterday when they left for Springfield. The crowd began to gather some time before a quarter of three, when the team was to leave, but at that time the street and the sidewalks were completely filled. J. H. Morse, L. S., led the cheering, and there were repeated cheers for Harvard and for each man on the team. The eleven has not received such a send-off for several years and it must have inspired the team with confidence...
There is, there must be, a prophetic power in such an afternoon as this. The lines of life held in your hands, running out variously into the darkness, must, as you sit here, tremble with some subtle movement which tells you how they will all come out to gather into the great light beyond. The simplicity and unity of life must at this moment be felt beyond its complexity and diversity. You must see how by one flash of vision that only in goodness and unselfishness is there the final peace, and that peace, though we come...