Word: midst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will always be looked forward to with the liveliest pleasure. Owing to Dr. Abbott's departure on Thursday, Dr. Brooks conducted prayers Friday morning, and will continue in charge of the chapel services during the next three weeks. It is always a pleasure to welcome Dr. Brooks to our midst...
...brought about a great increase of race feeling; and a corresponding decrease of moral sentiment; it is a time of rapid expansion, and of unscrupulous accumulation. Out of such experiences the great epic traditions of a nation were born. These epics are not left intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned their own religious ideas; with the religious ideas went the poetic ideas, too. But the Icelanders preserved the old traditions better, and Professor Francke analyzed the Elder Edda, and showed how it is a reflex of the time of migration...
WHEREAS, It has pleased God in his divine mercy to remove from our midst our esteemed riend and classmate, Argyll Fraser, realizing that we have lost in him a kind and genial companion, we, the class of 1892 of Harvard University, do hereby...
...greet our team as victors, after the game on Saturday. One of the disadvantages under which they labored last year, was playing on strange grounds, surrounded by spectators anxious to see them beaten, and this year that disadvantage is happily removed, and this year they will play in the midst of friends, anxious to see them win. The contest this year is a critical point in the existence of lacrosse at Harvard. If we win, the success of the game is insured but if we lose, which we sincerely hope will not happen next year's team will labor under...
...speaker said in brief: Germany of today offers a wonderful sight. Situated in the midst of powerful states, she has risen above all her neighbors in every respect-in power, in arts, in literature. Twenty-five years ago she was almost the toy of her neighbors. Now,' however, owing to her powerful army and navy and to a liberal policy, she can be fairly called the leading state in Europe. Another important factor in this resuscitation was the growth of national feeling. The Germans of all ranks and conditions-prince and burgher, wealthy and poor-all began to be filled...