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A significant remark was made by Dr. Brooks in his sermon on Sunday morning, - "And now it is the privilege of festival times like these . . . that the college feels anew its relation to the whole of things. . . . . On his birthday, when he stops his work to gather up his life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1886 | See Source »

The concert of the afternoon was extremely delightful and the lack of space in the theatre for even one extra person, testified to its due appreciation. But we regret that something more appropriate to the day and commemorative of the college could not have been offered us.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

In every period of her history the college has been a true person, a very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Evening Services. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

It is that embodiment of the college as a gigantic, gracious personality, that is most present with her children who have come up to her festival, she sits like Jerusalem upon her hills, "the mother of us all." It is that personal presence, which is with us here tonight. What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Evening Services. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

It is the duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Evening Services. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »