Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...like a discouraging cry of "No use, no use, no use, Harvard." And yet, this is in reality the only time when cheering can be of use. It is the time when every player is called to fight with an indescribable "gone" feeling. Any one who knows anything of human nature, let alone athletics, knows that it is at this moment that whip and spur are needed. A stirring cheer may change the result of the game. We honestly believe that half-hearted support of athletic teams on the field may do quite as much as defeats toward giving...
...nature there is no interpolation. So we may believe that evil was no interpolation, no after-thought of nature, but one of its necessary functions. This can be proved, for no such thing as good can be conceived without a contrasting idea of evil. The whole stream of human consciousness is made up of a vast number of different states, and discrimination is constantly going...
...valuable instruments and the headquarters of Professor Bailey, who is in charge of the astronomical work. In the upper station recording instruments of far less cost are placed, and these are visited once in each ten days by one of Professor Bailey's assistants. At such an elevation, no human being could remain and live; but the results, already obtained under the necessary conditions, have been very valuable...
...deceased was the motive in the cultus of the dead. Food was often forced into the mouths of the corpses and left with the bodies in the tombs. From providing food for the dead it was a simple transition to supply them with other comforts. Scores of human beings were sacrificed in order to add splendor to the entry of the dead into the new existence...
History is a record of men's progress in different ways. From these we shall isolate progress in religious ideas, see what sentiments they create, how they affect human institutions, and how dependent they are on the conditions of thought and feeling out of which they arise and in which they exist...