Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Poem, "New England", is entitled to hearty praise; the cheery, manly tone, the felicitous choice of descriptive terms, and the musical swing of the lines give it permanent value. "The Sound of the Sea" is a fairly successful experiment in rimed hexameters; one may object to the quasi-rimes "heaven" and "even," "fonder" and "wonder," as well as to the expression "memory of remembered faces"; but the verses are in general melodious, and the dreamy sadness of tone reflects one side of the effect of the sea-sounds. The other poetical pieces are creditable in thought and wording; they...
...sensations. The despair and the horror mean nothing, because there is for you nothing irremediable, nothing ineffaceable, nothing irrecoverable in anything you may have said or thought or done. If for any reason you cannot believe or have not been taught to believe in the infinite mercy of Heaven, which has made us all, and will take care we do not go far astray, at least believe that you are not yet sufficiently important to be taken too seriously by the powers above us or beneath us. In other words, take anything and everything seriously except yourselves...
...sixth Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon at 6 o'clock in Appleton Chapel and will be conducted by the Rev. Professor Philip Rhinelander. The musical program will be as follows: "Arise, O Jerusalem," Oliver King; "Now Heaven in Fullest Glory Shone," from oratorio of the "Creation" by Haydn: "Even Me." Warren. The soloist will be Mr. Nelson Roymond...
...fourteenth Vesper service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. Charles E. Park will conduct the service, and the following musical numbers will be rendered: "Sanctus," Gounod; Aria from Oratorio, "Prodigal Son," Sullivan; "God that Maketh Earth and Heaven," Naylor. The soloist will be Dr. D. C. Greene...
...blessings with which heaven may endow a community, there is none greater than the habitual presence in it of a good and pleasant man or woman, and this blessing is immeasurably enhanced when to goodness and pleasantness is added the gift of genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common...