Word: thees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before a microphone on the Georgian portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added her voice...
...paintings was called Here Am I. Another was Man's Last Pretense of Consummation to Indifference. A third was titled Behold, I Have Graven Thee on the Palm of My Hand. Remembering much solid and conservative work which had previously been signed by Charles Sims, remembering, too, the portrait of George V which Painter Sims had executed at their request and which they had been forced to decline because it gave the monarch spindle legs, several of the Hanging Committee thought it would be kinder not to show these last ridiculous and dreadful pictures. Charles Sims had written twice...
...first Freshman Jubilee was held in order that the enthusiastic male choruses of Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls might vent their vocal jubilation for the benefit of mothers, sisters, and other relatives. The affair' was aesthetic in every sense. First, the Freshman orchestra would play "Nearer My God to Thee' and then a ripple of applause would ensue from the spectators seated at the tables in the quadrangle. After a buffet supper, the interdormitory singing contest came. Standish Hall won the first contest and received the handsome silver trophy from President Lowell. After the singing the younger guests danced until...
Browning's poem, "Pauline", his first published work, is the most valuable book on exhibition. This particular copy was given by Browning to Sarah Horn Adams, the author of "Nearer My God To Thee" and who was also the Pauline of the poem. A collection of "Bells and Pomegranates" in the eight original parts which was presented to his uncle, Ruben Browning, makes a valuable addition to the collection. There are also corrected proof sheets of this work, showing corrections made by Browning himself...
...more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...