Word: newtons
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...least six of the poets are former slave traders, including John Newton, the slaver turned evangelist amd abolitionist whose famous lyrics about God's "amazing grace . . . That saved a wretch like me" originated as a song of thanks for his deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave dealer, James Stanfield, composed an epic of several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure...
...Pierian Sodality has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Conductor, Modeste Eugene Alloo, of Cambridge; president, Wilfred Jacobs Brown '17, of Plymouth; vice-president, Albert Sprague Coolidge 1G., of Pittsfield; secretary, Winfield Scott Libbey '18, of Lewiston, Me.; treasurer, Philip Dudley Woodbridge '17, of West Newton; manager, David Oakes Woodbury '18, of Ogunquit, Me.; assistant manager, Leo Berthier Drake '18, of Lewiston...
Right now, Harris said, the closest fueling station is in Newton or Arlington. While the cost of natural gas is about 30 percent cheaper than gasoline, Brown said HUPD cannot spend time sending officers far away for fuel...
...court also granted Harvard second right to refusal on the chapel property and allowed the seminary to sell its own building—Sparks House, where Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes now lives—to Harvard. The seminary moved to Newton, where it remains today...
...magic Ring, it is the slithery Gollum--thought to be nothing more than a nuisance--who ultimately destroys the Ring. Tolkien presents these profound ideas in the guise of an old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery epic. But the characters are as real and human as we are. BLAIR HURLEY Newton, Mass...