Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...generations as he takes his daily walk, shall be touched by refining and inspiring thoughts as he recalls that he is treading the very path which the poet trod in years gone by; and many a stranger from distant regions of our own country or from distant lands will seek Cambridge for the sake of viewing the localities which Longfellow's Muse has consecrated...
...fifth vesper service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock. The Rev. Lyman Abbott D.D., h.'90, of New York, will conduct the service and the following musical program will be rendered: "The Heavens Proclaim Him," Beethoven; "Come Now, Let Us Reason," Wareing; "Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God," Foster: Mr. George J. Parker will be the soloist at the service...
...Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding him at his work, force him by blows to admit his imputed profession and accompany them. When he is introduced to his patient, he also meets Leandre, her true lover, who contrives, under the disguise of an apothecary, to arrange an elopement with...
...young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters, May and Annie, are stopping en route to Japan...
...piece, for such it is to them. But those who have lived through a potent period of history, such as the Civil War, cannot take this distant view of their own achievements and misfortunes. Yet there are many Americans who misconstrue the events of the war, or who seek to minimize its issues. That great struggle was the trial of an indictment against human freedom under the disguise of a contention for the disputed right of secession. But behind that long maintained and often honestly supported right to secede was the desire to continue the outgrown and detestable institution...