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Page 87
... Hall . " " And where the night before ? " " On a bench in the Park . " " What is it you wish ? " " To be taken in here and reformed - I have nothing else between me and death - a miserable , a drunkard's death . " He was taken in ...
... Hall . " " And where the night before ? " " On a bench in the Park . " " What is it you wish ? " " To be taken in here and reformed - I have nothing else between me and death - a miserable , a drunkard's death . " He was taken in ...
Page 106
... kind of usefulness need not be bril- liancy of genius , nor high attainment , but simply common sense , with some power of arrangement , and a heart to love his neighbor . It is not for me to tell of college halls 106 COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS .
... kind of usefulness need not be bril- liancy of genius , nor high attainment , but simply common sense , with some power of arrangement , and a heart to love his neighbor . It is not for me to tell of college halls 106 COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS .
Page 107
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. It is not for me to tell of college halls and pro- fessors . The names of the first , and the faces or writings of many of the others , are familiar to stu- dents in Britain , yet it is pleasant to recall the ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. It is not for me to tell of college halls and pro- fessors . The names of the first , and the faces or writings of many of the others , are familiar to stu- dents in Britain , yet it is pleasant to recall the ...
Page 108
... hall where it hung - Princeton , with its lecture- rooms , and libraries , and above all , with its row of monuments , over the tombs of departed presidents , * How touchingly are those remembrances deepened in pathos by the tidings ...
... hall where it hung - Princeton , with its lecture- rooms , and libraries , and above all , with its row of monuments , over the tombs of departed presidents , * How touchingly are those remembrances deepened in pathos by the tidings ...
Page 111
... halls , which , accord- ing to his last will and testament , are not , on any pretence whatever , to be polluted by the footstep of a Minister of the Gospel , were in the first in- stance placed under the control of an excellent lawyer ...
... halls , which , accord- ing to his last will and testament , are not , on any pretence whatever , to be polluted by the footstep of a Minister of the Gospel , were in the first in- stance placed under the control of an excellent lawyer ...
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