Word: work
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been slighted because it calls to account king, church, council, and common law. This prose should be read especially by Americans, because it is one of the forerunners of their liberty. In Paradise Lost Milton shows his great spiritual thought; for the Holy Bible is the only work in English that surpasses it in this respect. The poet himself is one of the "kings" of the English race, no one surpassing him in pureness of character...
...good. This absurd method has now been changed and the selection of the detective, as well as his dismissal, depends wholly on the commissioner. He has also been given the right to promote any detective, with the result that a far greater activity has been recently shown in this work. During a certain period in 1906, 2000 men were arrested and 300 convicted; during the same space of time in 1908, 4300 men were arrested and 1600 convicted. The greater portion of these men were pick-pockets and burglars. Various methods of detective work are used to capture the criminals...
...Study Conference of the year will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Mr. K. S. Latourette, Bible study secretary at Yale, University, will speak on the influences of the Bible study movement at Yale and the means of increasing its work in the University. Dean Fenn and Rev. J. G. K. McClure, president of the McCormick Theological School, will also make brief speeches. Since the first conference held on October 8, the work of enrolling men in Bible study classes has been continued, until at present there are about...
...possible by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff who, in 1905 offered to provide the money for excavating the mound which buries Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. Professor Lyon, who left last spring on leave of absence to supervise the excavations, returned recently and reports gratifying results. The work was carried on at two sites intermittently from the middle of April until August 21. The first site is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of columns, belonging, supposedly, to a temple erected by Herod the Great...
...main work was done on the summit of the mound. The walls discovered show that massive and important buildings of various periods stood here. A broad stairway is Roman, at the foot of which were found an altar, two small culumns bearing Latin inscriptions, and the figure of a Roman emperor in marble. At one side of the stairway there is a large vaulted chamber cut partly in the rock. Remains of Greek and Roman pottery were found in great quantities...