Word: solemnizes
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Shrined chapel, solemn tomb...
...among the Greeks was, like the Parthenon and the Iliad, simple, objective, severe in style, regular, and graceful. So the highest forms of murder to be found in Teutonic nations resemble the Gothic architecture and the poetry of Shakspeare in their wilder style, their higher emotion, their deep and solemn mystery. Coming to our own time, is it surprising that our architecture, our painting, our poetry, our murders, all betray a miserable want of purpose, of sincerity, of well-trained effort...
...solemn stillness fell...
...hugging about the tree; but it would be manly and straightforward, and we could no longer be accused of cant. But there is a question where this principle applies in a much more serious manner. I refer to the question whether the chaplainship is now anything more than a solemn sort of blasphemy. This is not a subject on which it is best to argue, but let any one examine the feeling with which this office is regarded in his own mind and in that of his acquaintances, and see if the chaplain and the prayer are not considered...
...This day, for special reasons, the valedictory poem and oration were performed. The order of the day was this: At ten the class walked in procession to the President's, and escorted him, the professors, and tutors to the Chapel, preceded by the band playing solemn music...