Word: grave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience, if there were nothing to look to beyond the grave? Look a little more closely at nature and at history. Has it not often happened that what has seemed to come to an end and to have accomplished nothing has really been of great value? If we look at the mission of Christ on earth, we see a young peasant...
...Athletics, like everything else, ought to be for the many and not for the few. We believe that the opportunities which the Athletic Association afford for training are of the very best, and that students, who do not make any attempt to take part in these, are making a grave mistake. We do not urge any one to support something unworthy of one's interest; rather do we urge upon men how well would interest in the Athletic Association's work repay them...
...They simply indicate the beginning of what will probably be a steady wideninging of the field from which Harvard will draw her students. To discover this just at this time is particularly gratifying for it shows that the skeptics and conservatives all over the country who have looked with grave concern on Harvard's elective system and noncompulsory attendance at chapel are beginning to see that these are steps in advance. Moreover, it shows that Harvard's defeats in certain branches of athletics have not done her the injury that many people feared they might. We do not publish these...
...formation of the directing body for the new society was of too grave importance to be hastily accomplished. Mr. and Mrs Gilman formed the nucleus, and with Professor and Mrs. Greenough held their first formal meeting on January 14, 1879, and chose Miss Horsford and Miss Longfellow for their first associates. The desired number was completed early in the next month by the addition of Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Louis Agassiz, and Mrs. E. W. Gurney; and no time was lost in getting out the first circular, which was dated February 22. In spite of the careful wording...
...pretty well buried under the accumulated dust of ages. Excavations have brought to light a tomb in the wall, protected by a rolling stone, just such as the Bible suggests was there. The place has been left unharmed for centuries, because it is within the enclosure of a Mahometan grave-yard. Recent travellers proclaim it one of the most interesting spots in the Holy Land...