Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...General Walker's "The Eight-Hour Law Agitation," in which he gives an extremely candid and fair view of the subject on various sides, while nto pretending to hide his own conviction of the impracticability of such legislation. Mr. Warner, in his paper on "The Novel and the Common School," unintentionally emphasizes Mr. Lowell's remark that we are the most common-schooled and least educated people in the world. Mr. Warner asserts that it is the business of schools to teach a love of the good literature which is the fruitage of the world's thought. The "Turn...
...examination for the state scholarship at Cornell will be held on June 7. Candidates must be at least 16 years old and of six months standing in the common schools or academies of the state during the present year. The examination will cover English grammar, geography, physiology, arithmetic, plain geometry and algebra through quadratic equations...
Professor G. L. Kictredge lectured in the chapel of the Divinity School last evening upon the "Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life." The speaker said that the common Viking belief was that the dead were to remain forever in their graves, or at best would inhabit a gloomy hall of death beneath the earth. Many of the higher families, on the other hand, believed that in the fifth of the heavenly regions was a grand palace called Walhalla, so lofty that one could scarcely see the top, with five hundred and forty doors, and with walls hung about with...
...common belief sent all souls to Hel. This was a gloomy land, vast and pathless, in one part of which was the hall of the reigning goddess. A wall and river which surrounded this seem to be almost identically the same as those which the higher families believed were about Walhalla. Much dispute has arisen as to the unity and consistency of the beliefs in Walhalla and Hel. Some of the Eddic songs speak of Hel and Walhalla separately. while others do not mention the latter at all. The beliefs are inconsistent, because by one all souls are sent...
...adjourned meeting of delegates from clubs interested in securing rooms for use in common, will be held at the Foxcroft House on Wednesday evening next at 7.15. For the committee...