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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...also printed a paper on Charles Sumner written just after his death by the Marquis de Chambrun. Although called "Personal Recollections of Charles Sumner," there is very little "personal" about it. The Marquis was a friend of Charles Sumner and wrote from the standpoint of a man who knew his subject personally, but beyond that, there is little more than a history of a part of Sumner's political career. There are no personal anecdotes, in fact there is little that a careful historian could not have collected...
...rather rambling article on the conditions which surround a Florentine artist, a careful paper with which Frederic Crowninshield concludes his "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome," another instalment of Mrs. Burnett's "The one I knew best of all," two pieces of fiction "To her" and "How the Battle was Lost," and finally a pair of sonnets, make up the rest of this not very brilliant number...
Resolve, That in the death of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks D. D., we have lost an earnest helper, a devoted counsellor, and an affectionate friend, endeared to us as to all who knew him, by his large and kindly nature; that his deep interest in our welfare from the beginning will always be gratefully remembered by the Society; that, although his loss is irreparable, he has left to us a noble example. Be it further...
...necessary for us to call the attention of the students to the vesper service this afternoon. To those who had the good fortune to hear Dr. Brooks as a regular preacher of the university this service will be of special significance, while to those who heard him occasionally or knew him only by reputation it cannot fail to be intensely interesting. In order that those connected with the university may not be crowded out by others who will wish to attend the service. The entire chapel will be reserved for the university men and friends accompanying them, until five...
...most impressive thing to a young man is power. In reading the other day of the death of a Cambridge man who was at college with me but whom I hardly knew, it occurred to me what an unseen power this man had. There seemed to be a loving restlessness to his character; he wished to be doing others good, and this man gave himself up to Christ...