Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The period of the year which is given up to exercise in the gymnasium has arrived; and with it have come all the peculiarities of such a period. The stranger who enters the gymnasium for the first time is astonished at the great number of athletic uniforms bearing designations pecular...
One of the laws of Harvardium was that no foreigner should be admitted to the sacred precincts and classic shades of their renowned city, unless he was able to spell ten words of a language long since in its grave. The words were so difficult to master and pronounce, that...
Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where's...
Setting aside this pleasant companionship, and the bare fact that Memorial embodies in its walls a large dining hall, we find certain other pleasant and memorable features also. Who can ever forget the visitors' gallery? Who wants to forget it? Some have almost irreverently called it the "upper world," from...
Among the events which have rendered the past year memorable to me has been the demolition of that venerable and interesting old dwelling-house, precious for its intimate association with the earliest stages of the was of the Resolution, and sacred to me as my birth-place and the home...