Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chemical Laboratories will be open during the examination period...
Phillips Brooks was born in Boston. December 13, 1885. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and entered Harvard at the age of 16. He graduated with the class of '55. After a short period of teaching, he decided to study for the Episcopal ministry. Having been pastor of the church of the Advent, and of the church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, he was called in 1869 to the rectorship of Trinity church, Boston. In 1882-83 he spent his vacation in England, preaching in many of the London churches, and also on one occasion before...
...with the books of the Prophets which always have been, and still are, monographs. The character of the New Testament is very different from that of the old, owing to the fact that it was written in a space of 50 years, and thus belonged to one literary period...
...period covered in the lecture was from Chaucer to Elizabeth. The first poet of note was John Barbour who was born in 1320. In 1375 he wrote his story of Robert the First, called, "The Bruce." The language was the Northern English much like that used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn...
...college life that remain are but a short time to finish the work for which four years have been devoted, - four years that at the best have been short. To the freshman, unconscious and heedless of the vast field of opportunities spread before him four years seem a long period, but to the senior who has learned by experience those opportunities and who, looking back on them, sees where he has improved them and where he has let them pass, the time seems very short. After all, four years are none too long a period in which to learn...