Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stephen D. Pete read a paper entitled "Animal Worship in the East and West Compared." The prevalence of animal worship is very widespread in ancient religions. The custom is a very old one; it is a form of universal religion and a connecting link between pre-historical and historical times. Among the animals thus worshipped the hare plays a prominent part. The historical connection between different countries is not sufficient to account for this great prevalence. The worship of animals passes through all the stages of development of the human race...
...suffice to counteract all narrow selfish reasons for a refusal to give up their rooms. Complaints of a nature similar to these come up every year, and we can only attribute it to the lack of knowledge on the part of freshmen of the established customs. Class Day is pre-eminently and exclusively seniors' day, and every man in college should help to make everything as pleasant for them as possible...
...race for the class championship is closer this year than it has been for several years. No one team is pre-eminently better than its competitors. The result is that every class has won and lost an equal number of games, making the standing...
...history of the currency is an all-important question in American finance to-day. The legal-tender decisions in the United States illustrate important questions arising under the Constitution, and the power of the executive is shown pre-eminently. The court, if it had had an opportunity to decide upon the constitutionality of the legal-tender laws, before those laws had been passed by Congress, a different decision might have been made. As it was, the laws came to the court with all the prestige of the approval of a co-ordinate branch of the government. The decisions...
...Page and Mr. Knowles spoke in a manner worthy of high admiration, their attention to their pieces as a whole overruling their desire to offer more highly polished work. Mr. Currier stood pre-eminently for careful delivery and appropriate gesticulation...