Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Interscholastic Athletic League has been formed under the direction of the Cornell Athletic Council. The league includes football, baseball and track athletics and consists of eight schools and academies in Central New York...
Professor Carpenter said that scholars have disputed as to whether Egyptian religion was polytheistic or monotheistic. The fact is that the subordinate deities were grouped around one central deity. The sun, wind, rain, as well as the great river Nile combined to produce the splendors of Egypt. Among these, the sun, or Ra, was worshipped as the central deity...
...international affair. - (2) Seriously complicate our foreign relations: Nation, XXXIX, 496. - (x) England and Clayton - Bulwer Treaty. - (y) Other commercial powers interested. - (3) Would lead to acquisition of foreign territory - which is undesirable: Nation, XXXIX, 538. - (x) U. S. has enough to do with present territory. - (y) Absorption of Central America and possibly Mexico. - (1) Instability of governments and turbulence of people...
...object of the meeting is two-fold: to tell what each of the religious societies stands for and the work it is doing, and to organize the voluntary philanthropic and religious work of the students. With this in view, a central committee of fifteen will be formed and will place itself in communication with religious societies in Boston and Cambridge, such as the Associated Charities, the Prospect Union, the Andover House, and the various boys' clubs...
...land and distant from most of the great centres of population, must inevitably yield the students of distant states to their local institutions. And yet Harvard has maintained her reputation as a centre of learning so effectively that last year she attracted an increased number of students in the Central, Western and Southern sections of the country. This year, despite even the financial depression which is so serious a check to higher education, there is no decrease, but rather a strong increase. A moment's thought on the conditions under which this increase has been made reveals what a great...