Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williamson Smith, president of Trinity college preached in Appleton chapel last evening. He chose as his text the first verse of the twelfth chapter of Genesis. We live in three worlds as it were, he said, the actual world, a border land filled with thoughts and passion, and the realm beyond. The possession of well being and happiness is not in the actual, but in searching after the ideal; therefore, happy is the man who can look forward to that excellence, but alas for him whose ideas are destroyed. The choir sang the following selections: The Son of God goes...
...during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable for all. Once make yourself a drunkard, and drunkenness does not appear as base to you as before...
...Thayer Common Hall, which has been destroyed, is represented. A portrait of President Eliot, and a drawing of the John Harvard statue also find places among the pictures. Everything is brought up to date, and even the promised gate is anticipated. At the corners of the outside border of the engraving are the various seals which the college has had at different times, and a border is formed for the central view out of the seals of the college societies...
...Canadian independence would not be for the good of the United States.- "Continental Unity," in Boston Herald, Dec. 14, 1888. (a) There would be danger of disintegration of the Canadian Confederation.- No. Am. Rev., 142, 47. (b) A number of petty states on our northern border would cause many difficulties in international questions...
...souvenir in the form of a collection of pictures of the various buildings of the University. The pictures will be arranged on one large sheet, twenty-four by thirty-two inches. In the middle will be a view of the college yard, surrounded by a border made up of the medals and seals of the different societies. Grouped about this centre will be pictures of all the buildings connected in any way with the University. Below the view of the yard will be a picture of President Eliot. The collection of photographs and drawings which are to be engraved...