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...made in the manner of coaching the freshman football candidates is working. In former years it has been usual to see two elevens made up of men vainly trying to understand what has too often been the ill-judged coaching of some undergraduate, while a few substitutes wandered aimlessly along the side-lines. This year four elevens are working daily. Three competent graduate coaches are fast bringing them into such shape that the first eleven promises to make a lively fight for the class championship. If this system is adhered to every year there can be no doubt that indirectly...
...buried their dead in mounds and barrows and some on hill-tops which were consequently believed to be peopled with spirits. Probably the latter custom was not without influence in forming the idea of a heaven above. A very prevalent belief was that of a migration of the dead, along a river or beyond a sea, usually to the East or West; for men of imaginative natures standing on the shore of the ocean could see in the brilliant clouds of sunset and dawn, the capes and headlands of a fair land beyond. These beliefs may well be seen...
Traces of the cultus are distinctly seen in the Semitic races and many evidences of it exist in the Bible. In the Aryan races, too, the cultus existed along with the most exalted developments of philosophical thought...
Consider the second man. Suppose he gave himself up to his natural inclinations and got as much pleasure as he could in a worldly way. Sometime he will realize what he is making of himself and that his life is wholly useless unless he helps along the great purpose of all life...
Professor Putnam then described in detail the formation of the shell heaps which are found all along the Atlantic coast, and exhibited charts showing the construction of the mounds of Ohio. In conclusion he announced that another series of lectures on anthropology would probably be given next year, and also that a course in archaeology would be open to undergraduates of Harvard College and Radcliffe College...