Exercises At the Semi-Centennial of Amherst College, July 12, 1871.S. Bowles, printers, 1871 - 152 páginas |
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Alma Mater Alumni of Amherst American Amherst Academy Amherst College beautiful Bible bless brothers building celebration charity fund charter Christian church classical Colonel Graves commenced Committee Connecticut culture Doctor of Divinity Edward Hitchcock England Faculty faith fifty foundations founders Franklin County friends gathered graduates Greek half century Hampshire County heard hearts herst hills Hitchcock honor hundred influence Institution instruction Joshua Giddings jubilee labor land learning lege living look Massachusetts mathematics meet memory mind ministers missionary mountains nature never Noah Webster noble occasion orator perhaps prayer President Humphrey President Moore Professor Snell Professor Tyler professorship prosperity R. S. STORRs rejoice religion scholars semi-centennial Seminary society spirit Stearns teachers thee thing thought tion to-day town Trustees Tutors uttered WALDO HUTCHINS Webster Williams College women Yale College young
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Página 11 - I love to tell the story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love.
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 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. For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.
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.
Página 10 - ... Boston being the architect, and Prof. Clark and Mr. Luke Sweetser being associated with the former as building committee in the erection of East College. Thus, to express in Dr. Stearns' own language the " great blessing " which resulted from the " great catastrophe," " two new buildings sprang up from the ashes of the old, one of them Williston Hall, so comely in appearance, so convenient in arrangement, so generously bestowed and so full of invitation to the returning graduate as he comes up...