Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...English or Latin into Greek. The reading by the students was followed by an exposition of the passages, which was given by the President, who concluded with prayer. On one occasion, when President Rogers officiated, his prayer was not so long by half as usual; and Cotton Mather remarked, "Heaven knows the Reason! The scholars returning to their chambers, found one of them on fire and the Fire had proceeded so far, that if the Devotions had held three Minutes longer, the Colledge had been irrecoverably laid in Ashes, which now was happily preserved." A peculiar feature of morning prayers...
...might have felt a certain reticence in going to other great men, to seek him as a friend. Bishop Brooks was not interested in talking about himself, but he poured out his whole soul in his preaching. His greatness was in his faith in God and his faith in Heaven. His personality was such an inspiration that one seemed filled with a new life after talking with him. He loved young men and boys, he loved Harvard, and loved to talk of any plan for Harvard's higher development. On the day of Phillips Brooks's funeral, all Harvard turned...