Word: lis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Despite the rainy night, Appleton Chapel was filled last evening with those who went to hear the Rev. Phillips Brooks. The preacher took for Lis text the words from lsiah, "He planted an ash tree and the rain did nourish it." In the course of his remarks Dr. Books said that in college life men are too apt to be obsequious to the rich and popular fellow and to overlook or slight the brave, earnest man who happens to be poor or unpopular. A man's life can be developed fully only by considering his supernatural part, by maintaming toward...
...gentlemen of Harvard, are you aware of the fact that your college is in America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley...
...FLEUR-DE-LIS...