Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hears the solemn vesper bell...
...last the prospect of a spring vacation is good. The members of the Faculty have signed a document setting forth in appropriate terms their solemn belief that the best interests of the students in this institution of learning demand that they should have a week of rest somewhere between the first of January and the first of July. This belief is no hasty judgment. It is founded on the observations of several years; and the Faculty have the satisfaction of knowing that others, whose opportunities for forming an opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came...
...base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from many a face," while on the countenances of the few unconverted sits "solemn, introverted repression." This state of things is due partly to the efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, partly to those of a number of Rev. Presbyterian Drs. from New York, and partly to the "strengthening influence of room prayer-meetings." These latter consist of gatherings of twenty friends...
...improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which a Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree form an agreeable contrast to the more solemn and dignified proceedings in the Chapel. Seniors are not the less gentlemen for showing for a few moments that they still have youthful spirits, and rowdies they do not show themselves...
...importance of that occasion should be appreciated, and that it should not be marred by any wonder as to how well Tom or Dick can "make a prayer." We listen every morning to the simple eloquence of the preacher to the University; can we not trust him at so solemn a time as our Class Day service...