Word: saint
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...June number of the Beacon, the Boston University publication, contains some very amusing statistics of the class of eighty-six. Following are some of the headings into which it is divided: Future Occupation, Politics, Color Eyes, Color Hair, Size Hat, Beard, Patron Saint, Dance, No. of Plucks and Matrimonial Prospects. As Boston University is a co educational institution, one can readily conceive the supreme interest concentrated in these tables...
...their "Brethren," they will set before the rest of the world a fair pattern of the kindliness and brotherly love preached by Christ. This movement of exclusion, a bit of mediaeval intolerance must appear strange here in the most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing, it may not be out of place to quote from one whom Matthew Arnold calls "Henry More, that beautiful spirit." He writes thus: "A little religion may make a man schismatical, but a great deal will surely make...
...finer than any of those which at present adorn the walls of King Chapel. Mr. Frederic Vinton, of Boston, one of the finest portrait painters in the country, will be the artist. The subject selected is "Adam and Eve," by Flandrin, one of the decorations in the church of Saint Germain des Pres, Paris. The original is regarded as exceptionally fine, and the treatment is said to be so masterly that one may there observe the expression upon their countenances, which everyone expects to find, but which is generally made subservient to beauty and fineness of form." - Bowdoin Orient...
...Saint-Seans. Concerto in G minor...
...often be replenished. If a work pauses, degradation ensues. Christianity as a human philosophy is lacking. Only as a divine message, as a living energy, can it be complete and truly successful. Thirdly, history teaches that the failures of the world's heroes are not absolute. Each hero, each saint of the world but led the way for a successor...