Word: warm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After two months of work in the tank the Yale crew practised day before yesterday for the first time on the water. The day was warm and still, and the ice had disappeared from the harbor...
...Monthly, which will probably be out this afternoon, will be a Memorial number to the late Phillips Brooks. The editors may well feel proud of the work which they have done, for certainly the pleasant reminders which the various articles will make cannot fail to find a warm place in the hearts of the students. The editors have shown great wisdom, too, in having the articles written by men of different denominations, by clergy and laity, and dealing with so many different places and periods of the Bishop's life. No better test of a man's real character...
...strange what a warm heart he had, and how he sympathized with the poor and desolate. He never had had any hardship, or any personal sorrow, yet his was the kindest heart and his the tenderest words to the sorrowful. It is the poor who mourn him most of all, and feel that only God is left for them...
...another column should commend itself to everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars and promise of further support, should be a good example to call forth further subscriptions from every man who wishes...
...Harvard man. This does not mean merely that he graduated in '55, that class which contains such other names as Alexander Agassiz, Robert Treat Paine and Theodore Lyman. His interest in his university did not end at graduation, but ever since, he has not only kept a warm place for his Alma Mater in his great heart, but by his efforts has contributed, and contributed largely to the advancement of Harvard manliness. His affection for his class and college is shown in this short extract from a characteristic note written to his class secretary, " I shall certainly be at commencement...