Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opening chorus, sung by the chapel choir was "Hark, the Sound of Holy Voices," by Dykes' Mr. George J. Parker, the well-known oratorio singer, rendered the solo from "Elijah," "Then Shall the Righteous;" and with the aid of choir, the solo and chorus, "Say Watchman, What of the Night...
...following are mainly taken, one section of the first chapter refers to the scholastic requirements for admission and the other five sections to the payment of bills. Regulations concerning a religious, virtuous life occupy a whole chapter, eleven sections beginning "All scholars shall behave themselves blamelessly, leading sober, righteous and godly lives" and continuing to impose lines for disorder in the meeting house and for "profane and irreverent behavior at prayers...
...defaming celebrated men, or institutions is but another example of our human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
...condemn others; it may encourage certain states of mind. Thus we can conceive that if all the world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation. For if we came to regard wickedness as misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with it. Even now, who of us in his heart...
...building, let it be abandoned. Sever is surely large enough to furnish room for the examinations. Let Massachusetts be kept carefully, as a relic and reminiscence of by-gone days; that is all it is good for. I hope the students can be aroused to a state of righteous indignation about this matter, as it is of great importance to all. I do not know whose duty it is to take charge of it, but I hope some one will take the matter in hand, at once...