Word: impact
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Conference meeting last evening in Sever 11, Prof. Wm. J. Tucker, D. D., of Andover, opened the question. "The Recovery of Religious Enthusiasm." The past thirty or forty years, he said, have witnessed a relapse in religious enthusiasm. Recovery will come from the impact of strong minds on men outside, and of this recovery there are signs. Men, in the past, lost their enthusiasm naturally, for there was a need of material stock in which Christianity could take root. The peculiar enthusiasm of his own generation, the speaker said, was rather political or purely intellectual than religions. Of this...
This evening Mr. Leonidas LaCenci Hamilton, M. A. will lecture in Lyceum Hall. Subject: "The Mechanical movements of the Moon and tides explained by impact or pressure...
...London Sportsman in an editorial, says: "A player should be absolutely prohibited from running full butt against an antagonist and dashing him to the ground, should he be unable to withstand the impact. Foot ball would prove none the less interesting were it to be shorn of its roughness and horse play...