Word: sons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Johns Hopkins University has received a valuable gift in the shape of a collection of a thousand volumes and pamphlets on slavery from Gen. William Birney, of Washington, son of J. G. Birney, the great abolitionist...
...choir sang the following anthems: Thou Crownest the Year-Maker: Blessed is the Man-Knox; Come ye Children, Tenor solo from Sullivan's Oratorio of The Prodigal Son-Mr. J. D. Merrill...
...William Lawrence preached in Appleton Chapel at the vesper service yesterday afternoon on a passage in the seventh Chapter of Luke, where Jesus meets the widow and a train of people carrying her son to burial. In all life there are these two opposite processions, the one bearing death and the other life. If it is our fortune to be in the happier of the two, it is a wickedness to turn aside from the gloomy and death-bearing company. Compassion was shown by Christ to the widow and he raised her son from death. Compassion is what the rich...
...buildings for the new Stanford University, built by Senator and Mrs. Stanford as a monument to their son Leland, are rapidly approaching completion. They are situated at Palo Alto, an estate of 8,000 acres, reaching from the valley of the Bay of San Francisco to the foot hills of the coast range. In addition to the university and college buildings, the great dormitories and work shops, and the numerous other buildings necessary for a university which is intended to accommodate 800 male and female students, Mrs. Stanford is preparing, out of her own income, the construction of a building...
...Brooke Herfort. of Boston, spoke last night in Appleton, taking for his text Ezekiel II. 2, 'Son of man stand upon thy feet and I will speak unto thee...