Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sceptre. Here follows a choral passage, and then appears a messenger from Zeus, who announces the approach of the wedding company. Peithetairos enters, dressed like Zeus, carrying his sceptre and with his bride at his side, and receives a splendid choral greeting. Having gained his part of the agreement he declares his intention of aiding the Gods. The scene closes with a spirited wedding song, during which the characters and choruses leave the stage...
...Harvard students teach in the four Cambridge public schools, the Manual Training, the English High, the Russell and the Agassiz. When, however, the teachers of other schools requested recently an extension of the system to their schools, the request was voted down by the Cambridge School Board and the agreement as originally stated remains in force. Besides the men teaching in Cambridge, there are students engaged in the same work at Medford and Newton...
...agreement between the managers of the Harvard and Yale basketball teams the date of the Yale game has been changed from February 16 to January 26. The game with Princeton will probably be played February 22 at Princeton. Another new game arranged for is with the Newton Y. M. C. A., at Newton on February...
...Lisidor's suit at first, for Mirobolan is quite willing to have his daughter marry so old a friend. Their plans are upset, however, by the refusal of Feliante, Alcine's mother, to listen to the proposition; and in spite of remonstrances she has her way and no definite agreement is reached. The two old men are somewhat encouraged by the hopeful spirit of Marin, Lisidor's valet...
Most men feel a need, when they have some deep feeling, of expressing it. Goethe said that all his poetry was due to this need. The social spirit makes us wish to find some expression which embodies our agreement and union. The Gospel promises are made not to belief only, but to confession of belief. The Greeks called the creeds symbols, that is, signs or watchwords. A single word, like Amen, Hallelujah, or the Dervishes' cry "La illah 'llah" (no God but God) kindles enthusiasm when pronounced by many together with conviction. So the Christian creeds, believed and outspoken produce...