Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...avowal of sanctity, is pleasing to God. We should cultivate a reverence for quiet honesty, for the different phases of heroism the heroism of poverty, of those noble students who offer upon the altar of sacrifice their scholastic hopes in order that they may win bread for a widowed mother; the heroism of sickness, of those who have brave souls in weak bodies; the heroism of honor, of those who keep silent concerning a friend's failings and infamy rather than that a worshipping mother may become brokenhearted...
...characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable too his types of women-"Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta; the maiden Nausicaa, so beautiful...
...Peabody led the devotional services at vespers yesterday evening and Rev. Mr. Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young Lord for the first time leaving the narrow, squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home...
VOTED to enter the following minutes upon the record of this faculty, and to send a copy to the mother of Mr. Sawin...
That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his mother as a token of our regard...