Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strength and honesty were united a sincerity, simplicity and innocence of character which made his presence always refreshing and inspring. He reminded me of some strong, healthy and noble oak or pine of the Berkshire Hills which he loved so well, and his life seemed to be as pure and sweet as some crystal stream flowing down Monument Mountain...
...Pictures' Xmas" is a fanciful sketch of a Christmas eve celebration in Memorial Hall in which John Harvard's statue and the familiar portraits and busts come to life and discuss old times and contemporary college affairs...
...securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained a small recforship, and in this period of consecration he was engaged only the last three years of his life, during which he wrote the poems which have made him so well-known...
...meetings last night of the Graduate Club and the Natural History Society, are fair examples of a very active phase of University life. Side by side with the actual working departments of instruction there exist clubs of good standing which accomplish practical results by extending the work of the scholar and invest the subject matter with a social atmosphere which renders it doubly attractive...
There is no better proof of the vigor of intellectual life among Harvard students than the unflagging interest with which numerous similar clubs are maintained, and their success in bringing prominent men of learning before the University. The work is done quietly, but it is none the less valuable...