Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glorious scene was enacted here. The college sent forth her best and bravest, and their deeds became immortalized in glory; and the alumni have reared this magnificent temple and placed these monuments here to memorialize their valor and their sacrifice. Yet we treasure in our heart of hearts this grand memory of the past as a precious heritage, and we garner them to-day in the lap of our dear old mother as the rich assurance of our triumph and her renown. But, sir, time does not suffice, nor is it for one of us alone, when so many more...
...most happy, sir, to be remembered in connection with the grand jubilee of Harvard fifty years ago. I remember well doing not a little hard work on that occasion, as secretary of the Committee of Arrangements, and it was my pleasure, sir, to lead off more than fifteen hundred of the Alumni. There may have been rather more still on this occasion, but there were then over fifteen hundred of the Alumni whom I lead in the procession to our Anniversary festival and exercises...
...shall speak of the grand service of the evening? Those who attended it must relate a repetition of the glorious music of the morning enhanced by the excellent quartette of the four graduate voices. But still more, who shall speak of the beauties and magnificence of the grand sermon by Rev. Phillips Brooks? Two thousand listeners must try to answer; we cannot...
...accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police regulations, in the thoroughly economical view of conduct which a great community begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration of righteousness as opening the way to truth; of character as the medium by which light can flow. "Blessed are the pure in thought for they shall see God." Are those words too lofty - too transcendant, to write on the new portal of the college yard? Would they...
...labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency...