George F. Hoar: “It is an attempt to recall on one side the cruelties of the Catholic Church and to frighten old women of both sexes…”

To go fully into the role of the number three in British traditions would require a profound study; but it may be useful briefly to note its influence on the Bardic poetry-- the Triads, where the subjects are all grouped in threes.

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

We bring you the heart's love of Boston where you were born, and Worcester where you took the early vows you have kept so well; of Massachusetts who knows she has no worthier son, and of the great and free country to whom you have taught…