Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Standing at the confluence of the poetic streams of the past and the future, surrounded by these memorials of others' greatness, one involuntarily reverts to the actions of one's own life to see what has been done that renders one worthy to be handed down to posterity. My deeds...
THE subject of scholarships is treated by President Eliot in his late Report in a reasonable and comprehensive spirit, which - as the common phrase goes - leaves little to be desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For...
A student's room is sacred from intrusion. No master or proctor can insist on entering it, whatever may be his suspicions as to proceedings inside. In this respect Oxford is ahead of Harvard. The regulations meant to discourage dissipation and immorality are directed against the temptations of the town...
This must he have who roams my sacred grove.
"But, gentlemen, it is not alone these considerations which move me to express my gratitude for the honor which you have done me. I have had the extreme honor to have been admitted to the acquaintanceship of some of your most distinguished men, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Holmes. In...