Word: formed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting address on the "Southern Question" which was delivered before the Historical Society last March, by Mr. R. P. Hallowell, has been published in pamphlet form...
...people in the inlands south of Norway being unwilling to submit to Norwegian rule, migrated to Iceland in 884. This people increased until the population became from 25,000 to 30,000. They settled at first about the temples in little bands but finally agreed to unite and form a democracy. A constitution was adopted from Norway; the state was divided into four parts, and the latter into thirty nine parishes equally distributed over the island. Its population consists of three classes, the priest chieftain, common free man, who kept slaves, and the peasant. Its religion was native until Christianity...
...heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking of the Nibelungenlied, Professor Smith said there is no comparison between the Icelandic version and its present form, since the Icelandic is more powerful, grander, and more pleasing...
...Woomer, '91, opened for the negative. He deprecated all tampering with the constitution. Mr. Lodge's bill necessitates some form of coercion and this will arouse bad feeling. The South will soon be able to work out its own salvation...
...been made. The seniors are the farthest advanced, having got into a shell about the middle of last week. When they first got into their light boat they of course were at sea, but in the last few days they have made great advances. To be sure their form is very bad but that will make improvement easier. The oars on the starboard side have a strong tendency to get high off the water; number 7 especially might improve his rowing by lowering his oar a foot or two in the recover. Most of the men kick out their slides...