Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Christianity has been hoping for the reconquest of the Holy Land. Military value is important to be sure, but is insignificant to the historical and religious interest. Mohammedans have held this city for over twelve centuries, although their away was twice broken for short periods. Now the Christian troops seem to be making a more permanent acquisition, as they drive the Turks before them. The English have succeeded in accomplishing what was hoped for, and attempted during many years...
That the Holy City will become the permanent property of Christiandom is more than a likelihood. The British campaigns against the Moslems have so far been successful, even though sometimes delayed. The power of the Turk has been weakening in the last half century, and does not seem to be recovering. So long as English progress continues, while the Mohammedans weaken, the lasting possession of Jerusalem seems assured. Unlike many places captured in war, this has suffered no bombardment, much to the satisfaction of all who wish the preservation of the relies of the past. A field of historical research...
...college year, but they are a trial that must be gone through with, So the main thing to do is to get ready. If we start now and brush up the dusty spots, the examinations will not mean hours of difficult preparation and sleep less nights, but instead will seem comparatively easy...
...seem to certain Freshmen that insult has been added to injury. At a time when few occupants of the Charles River Palaces have recovered their equanimity, they are informed that Dean Brown of Yale will speak to them in Smith Halls Common Room. Some may feel that in a few weeks they might have so quashed their community feeling that they could have received this man graciously--even joyously. It has been asked in Gore Hall whether the Dean will discuss football in his address...
...absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions of war in the abstract, of which the first would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color...