Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor...
Sidney Bartlett, '18, died yesterday in Boston at the age of 90 years. He was the oldest graduate practicing law, and throughout his entire life was noted for his energy and devotion to his profession...
...announcement of the sudden death of Thomas Parker Sanborn, (A. B., 1886), will be sad news for the large number of friends who knew him during his college life, and the class of Eight-six will feel that it has indeed lost a member whose earlier years gave promise of a brilliant future...
...McKenzie read as the lesson the sixteenth chapter of Hebrews. He said that nothing is more inspiring in the character of Abraham than his sublime faith. He then spoke of the reasonableness of our faith in God and what it means to us in this life and the life to come. So far from making us dissatisfied with the life here and long for the joys of the heavenly home, the truly-balanced mind will be affected just the other way, for faith teaches us that the life yonder has its beginning here, and everything to which we look forward...
...force of Individualism is illustrated by the works of Lessing, Herder, Schiller and Goethe. Germans may well be proud of Lessing, for throughout his life he fought for noble causes. He fairly respected the rights of his opponents and, though falsely accused by the ignorant, he never wavered in his work. In judging Lessing we must take into consideration the circumstances under which he wrote since many of the reforms for which he strove, have now been established. But although his works are not now of the same value as they were, their effect on German life will never cease...