Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Schliemann has gone to Egypt with Dr. Virchow. He is anxious to discover the grave of Alexander the Great, but the place where it is supposed to be is covered by a mosque. Undaunted by this fact, Dr. Schliemann intends to dig a tunnel, or have the whole building moved, after the American method...
...another interest, namely, the religious, that cannot be neglected. The remarks of the speaker made a profound impression upon those who heard them, and it must be regretted that every man in college was not within reach of the speaker's voice. It is the plain truth that a grave responsibility rests upon the students of Harvard; upon every freshman as well as upon every senior. The present system of prayers was the result of a movement among the students, and with the students alone rests the question of success or failure. The members of the lower classes...
...Sanders Theatre last evening before a large attendance. Colonel Higginson made a few introductory remarks, in the course of which he said: "It was the custom in Ben Jonson's days, upon the death of a writer, for his brethren of the profession to throw their pens into the grave. And to-night we, the friends of him, the anniversary of whose birthday we commemorate, lay down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech, Colonel Higginson read a short poem called "Dame Cragie." The Rev. Augustus M. Lord, a poet...
...which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany and Scotland for fundamental philosophical truths. England is a pigmy compared with Scotland and Germany on these truths. I advise you, kneeling on Asa Gray's grave, to repeat his creed word for word, namely the Nicene creed...
...Advocate. The writer makes a plea for mission work to be carried on by the students of Harvard as it is by those of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. Whether such a plea is likely to have any effect on the men at Harvard is a matter of grave doubt. There are a few, no doubt, who would be willing to make the sacrifice, but most of us are too selfish, too securely bound up in our own petty lives, to give much thought to the unfortunate beings who make up the North...