Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Bishop Lawrence then formally handed the building over to the University and President Eliot, acting for the Board of Overseers, accepted it. He said that those who knew Phillips Brooks feel the pathetic side of this effort to transmit to future generations, the force, personality and inspiration of the man...
Phillips Brooks was, first of all, a preacher; and then a poet. If he had lived he might have been an administrator. One of his greatest powers was that of spontaneous prayer. With bowed head he would rapidly repeat some favorite passage; and then, throwing back his head, burst into...
Professor Peabody then spoke of the uses of the Phillips Brooks House. He said that it was intended as the house of all the religious societies; but it was hoped that its influence would be felt on the social life of the University, dignifying and chastening it. It is dedicated...
The mass meeting in memory of Phillips Brooks was held last evening in Sanders Theatre, Gibson Bell '01 presiding. The exercises opened with the singing of "Interger Vitae," by the Harvard Glee Club, which later in the evening sang "Harvard Hymn" and "Onward Christian Soldiers." Bishop Lawrence '71, Dr. G...
Bishop Lawrence spoke of the life and mental development of Phillips Brooks. Some men come to College with their minds already turned towards the study of a profession, but Phillips Brooks came rather to get a liberal education. Simple and companionable, he was capable of sympathy with all human interests...