Word: fourth
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...death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...
...fourth century fresh elements of thought began to appear with the belief in mysteries. Demeter, Dionysos and Zeus were thought to be connected with a future life. Purification or initiation was considered of vital importance in ensuring happiness for a future life. The impure or unitiated were supposed to suffer torments after death. The connection between body and soul changed during the fourth century. The soul and body had before been as one, but it now began to be understood that it was the soul alone that could have communion with the god. The soul must set itself free from...
...good sense of the players and students as a whole, and would be disinclined to take radical measures themselves; third, while most professors would be glad to see athletics assume a far less important part in the University life, nearly all recognize the value of intercollegiate contests; fourth, no professor seemed to feel that it had been proved that football could not be reformed; and, fifth, they all seemed to feel that just one of two things must be done, - football radically reformed or football entirely prohibited...
GROUP II (A).1. The belief in immortality among the Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries...
...hotly contested and the finish exciting. Six men finished in a bunch: First, E. S. Hatch '97 (1m. 45s.) in 29m. 39 3-5s.; second, F. S. Elliot '95 (scratch) in 28m. 2-5s.; third, W. E. Putnam '96 (2m.) in 30m. 15 1-5s,; fourth, E. A. Bumpus...