Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fulfillment seemed just beyond. Few years have passed since the University underwent similar suffering. It is such events as these that waken us from our wonted placid composure, and thrust home upon us the real significance of our life here. It is a time when the common grief vivifies a sincere sense of fellowship among us, and we realize what warm sympathy we shall ever hold for the fellow student who today is in great grief over the accidental result of a wholly blameless...
...believe in mortality? We cannot help feeling that we have only seen a part, that something remains behind, something which is not evident to the reason, but which the eye of affection clearly discerns. So surely as we loose what we love, does hope mingle with our grief, a hope which is but the conviction of immortality...
...Daniel Merriman spoke last night at Appleton Chapel, taking his text from the nineteenth capter of St. Luke, where Jesus weeps over Jerusalem "because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." This is o. e of two times mentioned in the Gospel when Christ shed tears; and His grief is charged with deep significance...
...which Harvard can claim as her own. we could choose none more appropriately than the two who have been taken from us so recently. The college has already mourned the loss of Dr. Brooks and is still mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been to Harvard. We can form little idea of the vast influence for good which he exerted for the college while in the vigor of his life. It is rather for those who have gone before...
Resolved, That we express our grief at the death of Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., and our sympathy for his family. Bishop Brooks was President of the board of trustees of Groton School, and as boys there we had the benefit of his devotion to the school. As students of Harvard University we have continued to enjoy the inspiration of his friendship and influence. Our personal sorrow is joined with a sense of the immeasurable loss which his death brings to Groton School and Harvard University. Be it further...