Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...join in the celebration of this festival occasion, which marks a great anniversary in the life and career of our ancient university. Our dear alma mater and our honored and progressive Commonwealth, have come down the centuries together, intimately allied for the advancement of sound learning, for a larger liberty, for a more intimate and patriotic citizenship, for a sympathetic support of the movements to improve the condition and welfare of our people, and to make universal the blessings of civil and religious freedom. To-day Massachusetts and Harvard university, receiving with gratitude the congratulations that come from all parts...
...tonight. What I want to do in the time which I may occupy with this sermon is to remind myself and you that this great being whom we reverence and love, must stand in some concise relation and obedience to universal being, must feel her life included in some larger life, or else she fails; of her best growth and good, and to see how that large life in which hers must be inclosed and out of which it is to be fed, is expressed in these words of the Old Epistles of the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday...
...little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action - Solvitur ambulando - and grows more conscious and more receptive of the true element of its existence, the larger and more fully it does its work...
...deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population as in those formative years of this portion of the American people. And who were these men, the larger part of whom were from Cambridge, and of whom at least a score were from Emmanuel? There was Simon Bradstreet, destined to span the two charter-periods of New England, and to be the veteran around whom the old-charter men rallied after the deposition of Andros. There was John Cotton...
...Leavitt & Pierce's and the Co-operative store to receive the names of those students who wish to participate in the torch-light procession will be removed. In order to make the procession a success befitting the 250th anniversary of the college, it is absolutely necessary to have a larger number of students march than have ever done so heretofore. For some inexplicable reason the list of signatures from the classes of '89 and '88 are much smaller than in the two lower classes. We understand that there are some men who intend to take part in the parade...