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...years he had a law office in Boston, but the care of his property and his duties as the trustee of various estates prevented much active practice. Finally in 1876 he began his career as a public man. In 1877, 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the Common Council, and was a Representative in the Massachusetts House from 1882 to 1884. In spite of his outside duties, he was one of the most hardworking members of the House. His enthusiastic support of Grover Cleveland in the Blaine campaign was consistent with his independence and fearlessness...
...sudden collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was roughly coincident with the first appearance of iron in common use on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world...
Nine Harvard men were elected to the Common Council; W. H. Lovis '95 L. S, Howland Dudley '95, J. A. Sharkey '99, J. T. Hart '95, D. B. Shaughnessy, Jr., '97, E. E. Clark '94, Stoughton Bell '96, J. D. Merrill '89, Thorndike Spalding...
From this cause together with the rise of the academies and the establishment of the district system, the town grammar schools declined, except in a few of the large towns of the Common-wealth...
Baptism was not instituted by Christ, but recognized by Him as the common means of entering into a new sect. He used the word "Baptism" always in its spiritual significance,--"I have a baptism to be baptized with." "Can ye be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" But He sanctioned its use before His ascension, emphasizing the point that it was to be in the three-fold name, and to be accompanied with Christian instruction. It is the sacrament of incorporation, of cleansing and of a new birth, which must issue in new and cleanly surroundings, outward...