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...comparison with this the Vedas religion was much older. It began its development in the early stages of polytheism. Later there came to be one chief God not superior to all the others, but, so to speak, chief among equals. This chief God was Varuna, the enveloper of heaven and sea. The conception of this great enveloper was very beautiful. Dr. Everett read a hymn to Varuna which almost reached the lofty idea of monotheism. But the worship of Varuna gave place to that of Indra, the God of thunder showers. Here again the religion rose to the verge...
Professor Royce, in his lecture last evening on "The Romantic School in Philosophy," abandoned, after a brief summary of the doctrines of Kant and Fichte, the technical discussions of philosophical systems for a comparison of the literary relations of the period with the thought of the time...
...comparison are added a number of biographical dates, in both German and English Liberature...
...standard for comparing the strength of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton elevens. Unfortunately, however, the visitors were weakened by the absence of Corbin, Gill, De Hart, and L. Mowry, and as there is no means of knowing just how much this affected the strength of their team, any comparison of the college teams on the basis of yesterday's score would be misleading. It can be safely said, however, that Harvard played the best game of the season. The work of the eleven was full of snap; the men never stopped playing football except for a short time...
...departure and is merely an experiment and a beginning. He then spoke on the four essential features of the bill and brought out the disingenuousness of the republican leaders. Mr. Storey devoted a long time to the discussion of sugar's being on the free list. He drew a comparison of the old and new tariff laws, said that somebody understood every line but that nobody understood the whole...