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If we trace the history of the English language back to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, we pass over a period when French words came in great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language...
Last evening the preacher in Appleton Chapel was the Rev. W. de W. Hyde, D. D., President of Bowdoin College. His text was as follows: "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans, xii., v. 21).
Rev. Endicott Peabody, principal of the Groton School, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening, taking his text from the first chapter of St. Paul's epistle to the Romans, verse 14: "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise...
Science is primarily a characteristic of the Aryan race. The earliest idea was that all things were ordained by a power greater than man. Invariably there is the idea of a god or a number of gods resembling mankind in form. The first great step in the advance of science...
Many of the old superstitions are now found only among children. Yet a few exceedingly curious beliefs, survive among us at the present time, notably the superstition still found in some parts of New England, that rats can be got rid of by writing them a letter and leaving it...