Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Their ideas, also, concerning Hades and the after life, are very different from those in later times. The existance of the dead was a neutral state, neither very blessed nor unhappy; nor do they seem to meet any punishment for "deeds done in the body." Oracles were scarce, only two being mentioned in all of Homer...
...Lovett contributes an article on Obermann. It shows critical insight but is neutral in effeet. The author is without either fellow-feeling for, or hostility against his subject. Thus the article must be utterly unsatistactory to those who are so unfortunate as to experrence De Senancour's sorrowful mysticism and inactive melancholy, while it fails to attract those who approach Obermann as students of literature, and seek to know what others have thought of him. Mr. Lovett's article appears to lack spontaneity...
...anything about a game outside of New England. We have a strict rule which cannot, now, under any circumstances be overlooked this fall. We call attention to the fact that reference to New England does not necessarily mean Jarvis field, but any one of the great number of neutral grounds which might seem appropriate...
...sport dragged out of reach. The objections to the New York game come, not from Boston men alone, nor chiefly, but from the students themselves. Finally, it must be remembered that Yale first proposed New York as a substitute for New Haven, and was emboldened to claim it as neutral ground only after the interference of certain New York Harvard graduates...
Second.- Each college to name a neutral ground, the choice of which to be decided upon...