Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Thayer said he would divide his subject into two departments of enquiry-the Gentiles, the Jews. The first of these he would consider tonight, and for sake of clearness he would subdivide these into four great particulars. Two external particulars and two internal. The two external were the securing general currency throughout the then known world for one language-Greek, and the bringing together of the nations of the world under one sway-that of Rome. The two internal particulars were the relation to religion and the relation to philosophy...
There are several peculiarities of the Old Testament. There is a biographical characteristic.- stories of individuals, from Genesis practically to Psalnis and Job. Then there is the intentional characteristic. The books were written for the sake of the lesson that the writers...
...important fact that political history is recorded in the Bible never for its own sake, but only in so far as it influences, or is produced by, religious development. There are two sources from which we draw our knowledge of Hebrew history, namely, native and foreign. The first consists chiefly of the Old Testament itself, a Jewish writer named Josephus, and the ruins and inscriptions in Palestine. The most important foreign source is the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia. The whole Hebrew Biblical history may be divided into five distinct periods, each marked by various characteristics. The adoption of monotheism...
...prominent members of the senior class, its first president being Charles J. Bonaparte, Esq., now of Baltimore. Since then it has continually been an important factor in undergraduate life. Today, as the Junior Literary Society, it is the goal of many men's desires, not only for the sake of its present pleasures but on account of the link which it forms through life between the alumni and undergraduate members. The dinner last night was just such a reunion, affording to the active members an opportunity of meeting their predecessors and to the alumni a chance to revive old memories...
...glad for the sake of the musical clubs and for the alumni of the West that the petition for a western trip has been granted. The faculty has taken time and trouble to make a careful decision in the matter so that here after similar petitions may be quickly reported on. We trust that nothing will happen to prevent this precedent holding for years to come...