Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there are two short sketches-"Moods and Music," and "At the Harvard Assembly." The first savours of that quality which the examiners of freshman third hour themes call "fine writing;" the second is a lively description of an assembly as seen through the eyes of a "solemn, disgruntled little...
...upper classes with his hat on, or have it on in an upper-classman's room, or in his own room when upper-classmen be there" ; "All freshmen shall be obliged to go on errands for upper classmen, but only out of study hours." Life must have been a solemn matter in those days, for Latin was the only language in use in the college yard, no other language being allowed. Every hour of the day had some duty assigned to it, and even in their devotions at morning and evening prayers the students underwent severe mental discipline. How time...
...reflection. It is for this purpose that these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross on a "Calvary Hill" in Roman Catholic Austria, these services stand for some solemn thought, and give strength for each successive ascent until at last the summit is reached...
Surely, my friends, surely there is nothing in the greatest office which the American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake...
After all, it has come to this. The people of the United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...