Word: solemnizing
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...future. He well brings out the Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth, "bearing contentment in his heart." I will not speak of occasional infelicities of phrase in this commendable attempt to give expression to the feelings of gratitude and the sense of duty which are our common inheritance...
...anniversary, but this the Faculty refused to undertake. If they had, it would, indeed, have required a fertile imagination to devise a program which would have enlisted the support of the undergraduates. We can picture the entire University marching sedately to listen to serious orations and to solemn reflections upon the life of John Harvard. The atmosphere of reverent awe would be everywhere in evidence, but not the undergraduates...
...will be a death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere had small faith in the pretentious practitioners of his time. They are portentously solemn, self-important, foolish and comic. It is the fifth physician who replaces them (no other than the disguised Clitandre) who works an expeditious cure. This short farce is all prose, all travesty, and all a thing to be acted in the liveliest and broadest fashion...
...plan or tentative agreement as a basis for discussion and negotiation, it has been upon such an assumption. If any proposed agreement should be open to a fair construction inconsistent with the above assumption it would have to be altered; for it would prostanto conflict with the solemn obligations of the University to its trusts...
...Gordon made the next address. He said that the legitimate expectations of college life were the delightful membership, the share of knowledge, the method of inquiry into the vast compound life, the privilege of sitting under great teachers, but most of all the realization of a constant and solemn relation to this universe. Christianity is simply the sovereign mood--man at his best. The good name of the University is bound up in the willingness of the new men to perpetuate and enrich and make commanding that service here which makes the sovereign mood...