Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remarkably large number of candidates for the freshman nine appeared in Captain Dean's room last night. Mr. Dean gave them an idea of what would be required of them, and announced the appointment of J. B. Lowell as temporary captain. Candidates will report to him in the gymnasium cage at four o'clock sharp today, when they will begin the usual course of preliminary training. The forty men who came out last night, with the positions in which they desire to play, are: B. F. Linfield, W. Hoag, L. E. Carr, A. A. Highlands, and H. Williams, pitcher...
...which distinguished it from the other religions of its time, and stamped it with its peculiar individuality. The Hebrew system of the ology is preeminent in its intense religiousness. All ancient nations were religious, as Paul remarked in the case of the Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency, and above all a rational method found in no other people. Religion was to them what philosophy was to the Greeks. This fact cannot fail to strike a scholar of both the Old Testament and the classic poets...
...first problem, then, that confronts us in the study of the religion of the Israelites is their idea of God. Their pursuit of this idea was characterized by the most remarkable directness of purpose and perseverance. The result was monotheism. Many generations of men "toiled in thought" before the world arrived at that conception of one over-ruling deity which is as natural to us as the air we breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds...
...next lecture Professor Toy will speak of the Hebrew idea...
...changes are now being made in the make-up of the crew. Very often one man will row on two crews the same day and the first and second crews cannot be distinguished for a day at a time. It is probable that the captain has a very slight idea of the men who are most likely to row in the boat. It would be a matter of some difficulty to decide which eight out of the number that are trying are best able to make a shell go fast...