Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make universal the blessings of civil and religious freedom. To-day Massachusetts and Harvard university, receiving with gratitude the congratulations that come from all parts of the civilized world so abundantly, unite in joyful salutations to all the institutions of learning everywhere; to the common schools, that stand in our land as the sure defence against ignorance and oppression; to the sister states, those contemporaneous in foundation and in settlement, and those too, reared in later time, and established in peace and prosperity upon the virgin soil of our country. And more especially do we regard with tender but exalted...
...President of the University, this is a rare felicity, that, as we stand together contemplating the grand triumphs of the centuries that have passed, we stand in the presence of that grand nation, born of the impulses that sprang up here and around us, and that we are permitted to signalize this event by our tributes of honor and appreciation to the distinguished, able, patriotic chief magistrate, the President of the United States. [Cheers; loud applause...
...those which are exceptional and rare, but those which belong in general to all humanity and constitute the proof marks of its excellence. In every age the member of the body of Christ has seen the great expression of Christ's life, of which he was a part, stand forth sublime and gracious, as mother church. In every time of national peril and preservation the patriot has been able to cry out to his beloved land, standing before him in beautiful distinctness...
...very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly become the subject of the mysterious...
...about Boston harbor and its affluents. One of the first expeditions which the Pilgrims at Plymouth sent out, was one by boat under command of Miles Standish to explore the waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later...