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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...founders of this college had their deep convictions; much of their theology is not our theology, but they had such confidence in Christ as the truth and in his church as the interpreter and friend of truth that they bade this college go on in the search for the truth, knowing that rightly conceived, every discovery of truth in every department of Knowledge would lead to the glory of Christ and his church...
...read that early in life a love of work became a ruling passion with him, and rest appeared to him to be intolerable. He made history his special study, and to it he devoted his whole heart. His mind was constantly turning towards remote objects of re-search and straining to attain them...
...interrupted in his search around the cave by the pirates who burst in and take him prisoner. He explains to his captors what a magnificent inventive brain he has, and describes his chief invention, in what is perhaps the liveliest song of the piece, "The flying machine song...
...poet, it seems, has left home because he has been rejected by his sweetheart, Lithia Waters, and is wandering in search of an aesthetic pool in which to drown himself...
...enter Tabitha Green, in search of her missing husband, and Lithia, in search of her lover, as he has fallen heir to an estate and baronetcy. They are disguised as Quakers and do a neat song and dance as their introduction...