Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life which surrounds them and to which they must forever keep themselves open. The part which knows itself and lives in obedience and receptively to its great whole is strong. The part which calls itself a whole and shuts itself up against the inflow of that universal which is "evergreen," grows dry and barren and desolate and dies. Of how many lives of men and institutions is the secret here? All false partisanship, all barren specialism and spiritual selfishness is but the effort of a part to take itself out of the embrace of the whole. The healthy partisanship...
...together to take part in the glorious celebration. For weeks beforehand the whole city was in a bustle of anxious preparation. There was erected on the banks of the Neckar an enormous Jubilee Building, in which 7,000 people could be seated. Every house was decorated with bunting and evergreen, and from every house-top floated the twin yellow and red of the Duchy of Baden. From all points of the compass long railroad trains came pouring in; all the hotels were filled; the streets were thronged; every face was aglow with enthusiasm...
Foster. G. W., 7 Evergreen avenue...
...that patriotism is inculcated at Harvard, not in one but in every day of the year. We think, however, that it would show our patriotism more plainly to the stranger if Harvard observed Memorial Day as a holiday. To have all the marble tablets in the transept decked with evergreen would symbolize the undying memory with which the Alma Mater will always clothe her sons. Moreover it would be but right when paying our tributes to the dead warriors to remember those sons of Harvard who spoke eloquently in favor of peace. Among these illustrious sons of Harvard whom...