Word: grave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows his versatility wins "the tribute of a falling tear." Throughout, his treatment of the grave question is characteristic; if he does not succeed in solving it, he at least makes a very entertaing and amusing attempt. There will be an extra matinee of this play on Christmas...
...belief he already holds. He will find that worship of man himself, disbelief of all forgiveness, of reward of virtue and punishment of vice, of soul, of future life, of Heaven, and of Divinity are the tenets of the unbelievers; that this creed and the blackness of an eternal grave to look forward to, are what unbelievers offer as an alternative for the Christian religion with all its beauty, of hope in future happiness and trust in a loving...
Lives, he said, from the cradle to the grave, should be a happy salutation from aftar. This is gained by three things, manly virtue, spiritual aspiration, a looking up to some ideal and a religious decision; which is the mastery of life by the spirit that is in man. The choir sang the following selections: O How Amiable-West; O Lord Thouhast Searehed Me Out-Croft (1677-1727). The latter consisted of a solo by Mr. Swarts, a trio, Messrs. Merrill, Swarts and Hayes and a chorus...
...this deed we all know there was no ill-will whatever-none toward Harvard, none toward Yale. And yet a grave injury was done to the property, to the self-respect of Harvard men, and to the good name of the college. The spreading the report of this irreverent folly all over our land gives a false impression as to Harvard College life, and does a serious injury and wrong. What then ought the offenders now to do? Should they work in concealment, to be ferreted out like rats, feeling now a guilt they never meant to assume? Would...
...Yale. Harvard's original proposal was to allow special students to play and to have half the football games in Cambridge. There can be no yielding on these points. Harvard special students must be in the future, as they always have been, considered eligible. There can be no "grave doubts" as to the propriety of Harvard's demanding the recognition of a body of students under stricter supervision than regular academic students, but on absolute social equality...