Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning tomorrow morning Bishop John H. Vincent of Kansas will conduct prayers for the next two weeks. It is no common circumstance that a Bishop of the Methodist Church should come to us from so great a distance and we have no doubt that the students will generally show their appreciation of the fact...
Just how prevalent the spirit implied in that answer is, we do not know. If it is common to a considerable number of men, then there is something about our undergraduate institutions that is all wrong; something that needs to be well remodelled. If prospect of personal gain alone will make a man undergo the hard work of training for football, for baseball or for rowing, then it should be made impossible for a man to obtain the greater, the more coveted honors until well toward the close of his college career...
...their members, - not acting in cooperation, but individually. The new movement was intended to combine all the societies, that they might gain strength from union, and also to bring into the work other men who were not members of any religious organization, but were ready to help in the common charity. The reason that brought men of different creeds and doctrines together to work side by side lay in the fact that they all felt the same deep love for God and man, and they knew that these sentiments were best expressed by philanthropic work...
...earthly body with all its attendant needs of food, fire, clothing and the like. Social relations were not thought to change in the spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty, put his own mother to death when her strength and vigor were yet unimpaired, in order that she might enter...
...heretofore the club is to be addressed at its regular meetings by men of ability who have something to say of interest to an organization of this kind. The informality of social intercourse among its members, who have no other common ground of meeting, is expected to be the best feature of the club...