Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tablet is strictly orthodox. By way of poetry it publishes a commonplace translation of Stabat Mater, to which it gives the following preface: "It is scarcely necessary to state that this beautiful hymn of Benedictus is here translated in deference to its poetical merits and not to its doctrines...
...article entitled the "College Bible" which appeared in the last number of the Advocate, the insidious and baleful influence of the New York Nation was alleged to account for the so-called trait of Harvard indifference." This twofold challenge to the student and the Nation appeals to a state of things in College and to an iconoclastic tendency in the Nation which fail to reveal themselves, I think, to the observer who is conversant in any true sense with the phenomena in question...
...Taunton to play the first game with the club at that place. The Nine at present is made up of six of last year's players, one Freshman, and two members of the Class Nine of '77. The Tauntons are one of the best amateur clubs in the State, so that too much cannot be said in praise of our men for defeating, in their newly organized state and without the services of their regular pitcher, so strong a team. The game was very exciting, and well played, comparatively few errors being made, while the batting was above the average...
...white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox way; fortunes have accumulated; and there are hundreds of men among us now, who, fully impressed with the sense of their social importance and financial security, are determined to uphold their position in a manner...
...window which has lately been placed in Memorial Hall is another sample of American work, and shows what a state of perfection the art of making stained-glass windows has attained in Boston alone. The present window was executed by the well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that...