Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that they would encourage the preacher of the university in their work by a full attendance at these Vesper services. If we wish to show that Harvard has a true religious spirit, if we wish to benefit ourselves, or if we have no other motive than the enjoyment of sweet music and eloquence, we should all gladly take time from our daily occupation to attend these short Vesper services. With a feeling of gratitude to the preacher for establishing this service, and with a desire that its benefits should be lasting, we must not, through pure indifference, fail...
...fresh young voices of the College Glee Club sounded very sweet as the grand old ode heard so often rang through the building...
...such sweet brows as never other wore...
...morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence of that sweet voice, and of that young bride, destined to become in more senses than one, the alma mater of the yet-undreamt-of College...
...there is any truth in the proverb that the smell of the bullock's blood is apt to beget a savagery in the slayer, the sweet voice of our Katharine may not have been without avail in mollifying the asperities of temper - if he had any - in that young Surrey butcher, Robert Harvard...