Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...September 8, 1836, was held the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the College. It was during one of the ceremonies of that occasion that Fair Harvard was first sung. In 1865 a solemn funeral procession on the occasion of the death of Lincoln, formed before old Gore Hall, passed by Boylston and Grays to the present Unitarian Church, where the most solemn services were held, in which Phillips Brooks made a prayer of remarkable power and passion. On January 26, 1893, with the snow deep on the ground, but with the whole University, officers, students and servants standing...
...will be afforded; will our plan give employment? The tobacco and sugar growers are idle because they lack markets. The coffee planters are without capital to make good the losses of the recent disastrous hurricane. Porto Rico lacks markets as a direct result of American acquisition. There is a solemn obligation upon the United States to furnish a substitute for those lost markets. The highest considerations of justice demand that we open our markets to the Porto Ricans. American markets are ample for Porto Rican Products." He then went on to show that the United States furnished more than sufficient...