Opening of Walker Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., Oct. 20, 18701871 - 77 páginas |
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Página 6 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 6 - LET children hear the mighty deeds, Which God performed of old ; Which in our younger years we saw, And which our fathers told. 2 He bids us make his glories known, His works of power and grace ; And we'll convey his wonders down Through every rising race. 3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons, And they again to theirs, That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs. 4 Thus shall they learn, in God alone Their hope securely stands, That they may ne'er forget his works, But practise his...
Página 58 - Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God Came with those exiles o'er the waves ; And where their pilgrim feet have trod, The God they trusted guards their graves. 4 And here Thy name, O God of love, Their children's children shall adore, Till these eternal hills remove, And spring adorns the earth no more.
Página 58 - Thou heard'st, well pleased, the song, the prayer : Thy blessing came ; and still its power Shall onward, through all ages, bear The memory of that holy hour.
Página 61 - ... of the globe. This corridor is very appropriately decorated, and is embellished with maps of different countries ; but, to obtain a view of the earth, the visitor must pass through the crust of the globe. An entrance is effected through the Antarctic sea, which leads him to four tiers of galleries, rising one above the other, to the top of the building. The great panorama or map of the world is here spread out before him, and the effect is extremely striking and beautiful. The best idea that...
Página 64 - His early education was received in the public schools of his native town and he afterward attended the University of Michigan.
Página 6 - Let children hear the mighty deeds Which God performed of old , Which in our younger years we saw, And which our fathers told. " He bids us make His glories known , His works of power and grace ; And we'll convey His wonders down Through every rising race. " Our lips shall tell them to our sons , And they again to theirs ; That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs. " Thus shall they learn in God alone Their hope securely stands; That they may ne'er forget His works , But practise...
Página 3 - Resolved, That the thanks of the Society, be presented to the Hon. SA Douglass, for his eloquent and practical address, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publication in the Transactions of the Society.
Página 33 - When scholars had so far profited at the grammar schools that they could read any classical author into English, and readily make and speak true Latin, and write it in verse as well as prose ; and perfectly decline the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, they were judged capable of admission in Harvard college.
Página 65 - After the abdication of Napoleon, he went to London, and became a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, and having spent six months in the prosecution of his studies in Grey's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, he returned to the United States, and immediately commenced the practice of his profession in his native town where, by his skill and kindness, especially to the poor, he soon gained an extensive practice.