Word: sun
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...solve the riddle entirely. He did not seek to take away worldly possessions and objects of love from his followers; he rather wished to put them in a position to know the true relations between earthly possessions and spiritual life. As Copernicus was the first to consider the sun the centre of the universe, so Christ put God in the centre of the great universe of human life...
...gives five lectures on Biblical literature; Professor Taylor, five on the Aryan and Semitic languages; Professor L. E. Warren, five to ten on the history of Italian painting, two on the seven great styles of architecture, and three on architecture and sculpture; Professor W. A. Warren, one on the sun, two on the moon and three on the planets; Professor W. S. Bayley, six on glaciers; Professor Stetson, three on Greek tragedy and the Greek theatre; Professor Black, five on American history and three on money and banking; Dr. Marquardt, on the classical periods of German literature...
...characteristics which distinguished General Gordon. The country in which this wonderful man spent the last years of his life is an interesting one. It rolls in graceful hills covered with dry grass. Dotted here and there are groups of straw huts. Above is the clear sky and the hot sun. Near the little village bushy headed men may be seen tilling the sandy soil and women carrying huge earthen water jars. There is little variety of scenery except on the shores of the Nile where there are dense forests. The Soudan is almost entirely surrounded by deserts which...
...society also intends within a very short time to restore the finger of the old sun-dial on Massachusetts Hall which has been so long missing, to mark the site of the first Stoughton Hall, to restore some almost effaced lettering on one of the corner stones of Hollis, and to place transmittenda in several of the college rooms which have been occupied by famous...
Among the exercises was the singing by the choir of "The Sun Shall be no More Thy Light by Day," by Woodward, and "lord, I Have Loved," by Iliffe...