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Cowper's life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave...
...mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which stood in the time of Christ...
...place of a skull" Close at hand have been discovered the remains of an old Roman road leading directly to Herod's Tower in the city from which it could easily be seen. Moreover, just back of the hill stands a garden, and along its edge runs a wall, pretty well buried under the accumulated dust of ages. Excavations have brought to light a tomb in the wall, protected by a rolling stone, just such as the Bible suggests was there. The place has been left unharmed for centuries, because it is within the enclosure of a Mahometan grave-yard...
...main ground taken by the graduates who spoke, was that by passing the rule, a wall would be built between Yale University and Yale College...
...former work. a severe enough criticism in itself. The College Kodaks are not very good, the first is poor, the second is fair, the fifth is pointless, while the last is neither funny nor pleasing. A redeeming feature of the number is "The Picture That Was Turned Towards The Wall." It is a good story and is well told. "Berenice" is a peculiar story and the point is singularly obscure. "Ave Pueritia" is a dainty bit of verse with a feeling rather deeper than what is usually found in the Advocate...