Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Were there two or more epochs of glaciation in the Pleistocene period...
Yesterday active training began among all candidates for the 'varsity crew. The men assembled in the Carey Building and preliminary squads were organized. It is interesting to note at this period when the football season is a thing of the past, what was accomplished by the 'varsity squads which rowed on the river for five weeks this fall under the daily supervision of Mr. Watson...
...would be difficult, Professor Carpenter said, to give in one lecture a complete account of the rise of ideas among the Hebrews from the animistic level of the earliest period to the lofty conceptions which marked their highest development. This growth was stimulated from various sources, chiefly Persian and Greek. It was controlled by certain passionate religious convictions which were transformed under deep national and personal experiences...
...death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this period of Hebrew thought. The Persian supremacy was followed by Syrian overlordship which produced a demand for moral readjustment hereafter through resurrection...
...With the period of Greek influence came the rise of Apocalyptic literature. It brought an element of the idea of eternity but did not work it out in a system of philosophy. The body was considered the seat of personality and hence it was thought that there could be no reward or penalty without the ultimate union of soul and body...