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...most promising oar seems to be Langford, a freshman. He has stroked the crew part of the time the past two weeks. Simpson stroked the freshman crew last year, and has stroked the 'varsity a fortnight since the boat was made up in January. He is a promising dark horse for stroke this year. Bailey, up to three weeks ago, was considered the most promising candidate for 'varsity stroke. At that time he was taken ill with varioloid, and since his return has been very weak. His illness seems sure to cost him the position of stroke...
Italy in the Dark Ages was different from the rest of Europe. Though made up of separate and distinct states bound in no way to one another, one thing formed a bond of union, and that was the imperial grandeur and authority of Rome. The influence of her traditions were strong. The story of Roman deeds was known to all men, and her language formed the basis of the new language which had its origin, during the early party of the twelfth century, in a growing demand for expression. The Roman Church also had a strong hold upon the minds...
...eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make the salvation of his suffering fellow creatures his life work, and here in this dark district of London, where the light of God had never penetrated, be found his field of labor...
...desperate state certain districts of London were, he could induce many to take hold and aid him in the work of salvation. He prefaced his scheme with a diagram, pronounced hideous by the lovers of high art, but by it he hoped to lead people to see the dark sea of misery and crime, which was so near them. We give a man the name of drunkard or tramp, said the general, and then turn away in disgust and think we have done with him. Yet the tramp is still a man; he can feel cold and the gnawing pangs...
...corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...