Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mass meeting will be held some night next week in order to call together the old lacrosse players who are still in college and graduates outside, together with men who would like to join the fall squad...
...lecture, that the spirit of the dead continued in its earthly dwelling; and all sorts of devices were resorted to in order that the spell of its presence might not remain over the other inmates of the house. The earliest idea of a tomb was that of a house like that occupied by the spirit in life and which was to be its permanent domicile. Among people who lived in caves, burial was made underground. Thus grew up the ideas of the nether world which are shown in the word hell, which means "the hidden." Some people buried their dead...
Among the races whose ideas are being considered it was believed that the spirit possessed a form similar to the earthly body with all its attendant needs of food, fire, clothing and the like. Social relations were not thought to change in the spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty...
...Harvard eleven played for the most part a miserable game, but occasionally a good tackle or a bit of fair interference would crop out. The men seemed to lack entirely any spirit of aggressiveness, and it was rarely that the backs showed anything like interference. The only redeeming feature of their general work was the first class game they put up on the defence. Only twice could the Amherst team make its distance...
Amherst was light and weak at every point. They had no interference, and their defensive play was very poor. Captain Pratt, Rosa and Caruthers were the only men to do anything like brilliant work...