Word: procession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...actual state of affairs in foot ball. There has been no real effort to play the game yet or to develop a team. The captain has been trying his material, testing each man thoroughly, and sifting out all except such as promise to develop into 'varsity material. Once this process is completed the real work of building up a team can begin. In the meantime the men are acquiring a great deal of knowledge about the game, and when the real work begins they will be found to be much farther along than anyone had expected. What the college needs...
...consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal and deformed and entrenched himself there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency is the same, to manifest the invisible world of inward inclinations and dispositions by the visible world of outward words and actions. Meanwhile...
...unfortunate in that it has kept the nine from going out on the field again. Open weather is not far off, however, and games are already being arranged. It is impossible at present to give a complete list of the games that have been arranged, or that are in process of arrangement, with the dates fixed upon. But it can already be stated that games will be played with Dartmouth at Hanover, Williams at Williamstown, and Amherst at Amherst, with return games in Cambridge. Four games will be played with Brown, two here and two at Providence. A series will...
...monotheism which the Hebrews, by whatever process, finally attained must not be looked upon as a good in itself. Monotheistic doctrines might well coexist with an evil state of society. It was because the prophets always attacked the theological problem from its ethical side that we owe such an immeasurable debt to the civilization which produced Amos and Isaiah...
...place of tonic note. In the Harmonic style which at the Reformation succeeded Polyphony the modes of E F and G fell out of use. The mode of C became the modern major scale; and those in A and D united to form the modern minor. In this process of development the diatonic scale itself become modified for reasons which will be referred to in the lecture on Harmony...