Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Commemoration Ode by Mr. Charles Eliot Norton, with a few appropriate remarks, and singing by the Glee Club. The exercises will take very little if any over half an hour. Coming at just this hour when nothing else is going on to interfere, there seems to be no reason why a large number of the students should not be present...
...critical condition. If the players can regain and keep their form, they stand an excellent chance of winning the second game from Yale; if they indulge in complacency over the work they have already done, they will surely lose and they cannot expect, if defeat comes for this reason, that the University will be anyting else than disgusted. No one would feel worse than the members of the nine themselves if they should lose at Yale, and no one knows better than they that to down Yale on her own grounds will be a very severe task. Hard work must...
...reason for writing to you is clear, and I am ready to help...
...other. The oldest of these cities was probably built about 2000 B. C. Later work among the ruins has shown the existence of three other settlements. The last of these was the Roman Ilium. Dr. Dorpfeld, who has been working in the excavations, believes with a good deal of reason that the sixth settlement was the Troy of Homer, built about 1200 B. C. He bases his opinion on a kind of pottery found in the ruins which was used at that period. The walls of the city at this time and later were built of a low foundation...
...John, he said, must not be taken as a literal description of heaven. It is an allegory, and all through the Bible we find God teaches His people constantly by allegories. They make the truth easier to comprehend. Some people find in a literal interpretation of the Bible much reason to scoff at Christianity. Who, they say, cares to look forward to a future existence spent in a white robe, with a golden crown on his head listening to music? or who is terrified at the prospect of having a spirit bound by iron chains and tortured with material fire...