Exercises at the Semi-centennial ... July 12, 1871

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Samuel Bowles & Company, 1871 - 149 páginas
 

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Página 4 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Página 11 - I love to tell the story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love.
Página 117 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 61 - self destroyed her favourite son ! Yes ! she too much indulged thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle...
Página 81 - Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray...
Página 3 - William S. Tyler, DD, be requested to prepare a history of Amherst College, which shall be ready for delivery at Commencement, 1871, and that he be requested also to address the Alumni on that occasion. " Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed to confer with the Trustees and with Prof. Tyler, and to act as a Committee of Arrangements for our approaching semi-centennial.
Página 61 - ... UNHAPPY White*! while life was in its spring, And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone/ When Science...
Página 59 - ... building was erected, and new books were placed on the shelves of such a kind, and to such an extent as to make it almost a new Library. Last, not least, it inaugurated the reign of comparative peace. From the commencement of Dr. Hitchcock's presidency, there was less of hostility abroad than there had ever been before, and more than for many years previous, of peace, quietness, contentment and satisfaction at home. This was partly the result of a change of times and circumstances, and partly...
Página 58 - God would alter the whole aspect of things ! Indeed, when the change came, it seemed to me as obviously his work as if I had seen the sun and moon stand still, or the dead start out of their graves ; and it appeared as absurd for me to boast of my agency in the work, as for the wires of the telegraph to feel proud because electricity was conveying great thoughts through them. Oh no ; let the glory of this change be now and ever ascribed to a special divine Providence.
Página 30 - Packard, it was unanimously resolved by that body, that "in their opinion, knowledge and virtue might be greatly subserved by a literary institution situated in some central town of old Hampshire County," and they were also " unanimously agreed that, all things considered, the town of Amherst appeared to them the most eligible place for locating it.

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