Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great many changes will be made at Tufts College this year. New buildings are to be raised and the old ones will be renovated...
...melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave him profoundly dejected. Later he went to Westminster School, and became a very good classical...
...youth, who, surrounded by loving teachers and with all possible advantages, yet fails at his first actual trial. He may have had his temptations, but they should have been incentives to virtue. His failure is terrible. May God, looking down on us as He did on Jerusalem of old save us from such failures by revealing to us the time of our visitation...
...worthy example to others, and as something in which each member of the class may take no little pride. During those three hours or so in the Tremont House, the Juniors seemed to combine as one to show a lively interest, not only in the class, but in old Harvard itself. It was the first occasion on which they had met as a body. It is the one time in the whole four years of college life which they will look back upon as a landmark, about which to group so many of their college associations and experiences. If, then...
...beautiful duet "Love divine!" Mr. Parker and Mr. Meyn were all that could be desired. The singing of the choruses was marked by decision and careful phrasing. At the end of the service the congregation, which filled all the available standing room in the chapel, joined in singing Old Hundred...