Word: creationism
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...mere matter of habit and association the majority of men are opposed to the modern creation, the New Woman. Most men are conservative in this respect, they prefer to see women in the sphere in which they have always known them. It must appear to every one upon careful consideration that there has been too much talk upon the recent books, "Marcella" and "The Yellow Aster." Marcella branches out upon all sorts of feverish schemes and plans for social improvement in England, but in the end she relinquishes all these original thoughts and plans, and marries just like...
...water: Powell, 221. - (b) By individual farmers. - It would be on too small a scale to be effective except in a few places: Powell, 237. - (c) By corporations. - (1) It leaves a great class of farmers at the mercy of the water companies. - (2) It would lead to the creation of large estates and the crushing out of small holders. - (3) It would lead to popular hatred, as in the case of railroads in the west...
...relinquish the idea of an authority that is absolute. But within the past seven or eight years a great change has taken place and the bond of sympathy between the instructors and the students has grown much stronger. This result has been brought about by several causes. The creation of a board of freshman advisers has had the effect of making the first year men feel that the members of the Faculty are capable of a sympathetic understanding of the difficulties which perplex the new-comer. The very presence of the Committee for the Reception of New Students, composed...
...obscure allusions, but the conception reached is a still higher one. Israel is regarded no longer as a guilty nation, but as a righteous one under oppression. The prophet describes the removal of the veil of death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this period of Hebrew thought. The Persian supremacy was followed by Syrian overlordship which produced...
...recent meeting of the Board of Overseers, an important vote was passed to the effect that the creation of what may be called an art commission for Harvard should be recommended to the President and Fellows. The form of the vote...