Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Morgan Dix has accepted the invitation of the class to deliver the baccalaureate sermon in St. Thomas's church...
...Testament. The Bible contains an historical account of the Hebrew nation from its foundation to the time of Christ. Mingled with the purely historical are the books of prophecy, the poetical and devotional books and the books of ritual and law which formed the governing code of church and state. In this course Professor Lyon intends to read and discuss the writings of the prophets, as literary and historical relics of Hebrew literature...
...different parties in the country. He finds that the only difference between the victor and the vaquished in the War of the Secession lay in the different construction of the word "people" in the Preamble. A few extracts from the diary of Rev. Manasseh Cutler follow, illustrating "Church-going in New York City in 1787." Mrs. Plongeon contributes the first part of a paper on the "Conquest of the Mayos." The writer gives a summary of what is known of the early history of Yucatan and adds an account of the battles between the Spaniards and the natives...
...excavations now in progress in Attica are under the supervision of Mr. Buck of Yale. It will be remembered that last year a theatre, with its orchestra and stage, was excavated at Sicyon. The work at present is going on near the ruins of a Byzantine church. In the apseof the church a choragic monument was found, upon whose architraive were the names of those patrons of the chorus who erected it in commemoration of a triumph in a literary competition. Outside the church a marble seat or throne was unearthed, while near it there were traces of votin slabs...
...earliest eight-oared race was one between a London crew and Christ Church, Oxford, for $200, in 1828. It was rowed from Westminister to Putney, and won by London by 70 yards. The following year the first race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities took place on Henley Reach, a distance of two miles and a quarter, and was won by Oxford...