Word: theseely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"The Study of Astronomy" is a nicely written rhapsody, indulging in such flights as these, "To his mind uninstructed in the mysteries of science, the starry firmament must have presented a great and wonderful scene. Its silence! its splendor! its immensity! its blue diamond-studded arch, resting upon the unseen...
There are three religious organizations among us, which hold precisely the position of churches in the outside world. There is, first, the Christian Brethren. This society was organized in 1802. It corresponds to a Baptist or Congregationalist church. It was founded to keep alive the fund-mental ideas of Evangelical...
In these societies, as members, are included about one fourth of the Undergraduates. It would be difficult to find a community in the world at large where a like proportion were members of the churches. Furthermore, these societies employ methods of work very similar to those of the churches outside...
Such, I believe, is the state of religion at Harvard. And it is evident from these considerations that no one man can be considered as an example of the religious influence of the College; but rather we must decide what this is as we would in an ordinary New England...
I will enter a certain room in Hollis and take for my centre-piece a life-sized picture of a "Goody" holding in one hand a broom, emblematical of her occupation; around her a great many names are written, not to indicate that these are the names of so many...