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...using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light of the painted windows and vainly endeavor to make out through the gloom the big letters of the psalm books. Much good eyesight is being uselessly squandered in these rash attempts to follow the service, while the "powers that be" calmly look on at the destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1885 | See Source »

...blazing fire and by the side of his father and mother. When Webster was about seven years old his father kept a public inn, and it was customary for the teamsters as they drew up at the house to say. "Come, let's go in and hear a psalm from Dan Webster." Even at that time, his voice was deep, rich and musical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Webste's Preparation for College. | 12/20/1884 | See Source »

...precious book, whose leaves have been thumbed by men whose names have been household words for centuries. Here is the old Indian Bible of that heroic soul, John Eliot; also the Bible of John Bunyan, with his autograph on the title page, which bears the date 1637. The Bay Psalm Book, the first work published in America, must not escape your attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Curiosity Room in the Library. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

...procession was formed in front of Massachusetts Hall Headed by a band graduates in front. Headed by a band of music the alumni to the number of seven hundred marched to Memorial Hall, where the dinner was served. The Rev. John F. Moors invoked a blessing and a psalm was sung under the leadership of the veteran John Langdon Sibley. President Russell of the alumni then began the speaking, and he was followed by Pres. Eliot, Gov. Robinson. '56, Prof. Jebb, Prof. Newcomb, Prof. Child, Judge Holmes, Newcomb, Prof. Child, Judge Holmes, Thomas Cushing, '34, S. A. Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement Day, June 25, 1884. | 8/25/1884 | See Source »

...psalm was warrior David's song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAMOUS HARVARD MEN- II. | 10/16/1883 | See Source »

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