Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...perhaps the great fact is, the best value of any period of existence is not clear to us until we have left it. That is very often at once our sorrow and our consolation. We shall not know what this strange dear old earth has done for us until we stand on the far-off hill tops and walk by the river of the water of life. Therefore we dare to believe that the value of character and service which is behind all the lighter and weaker standards of college life is to come out more and more to college...
...final examination in History 1 men will not be held responsible for Prof. Channing's last five lectures-those covering the period from 1715 to the present time...
...Master of the Magicians," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward, is an historical romance dealing with the period of the captivity of the Jews at Babylon. It is exceedingly interesting. It is seldom that a period so remote that "fact and fable contend for the field" is successfully treated as the foundation of a novel, yet this book brings out the customs and conditions of Babylon at the time of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel in a clear and entertaining manner. The story leaves a vivid impression of the almost superhuman hower of the Babylonian kings...
...future except to draw thence new arguments for in fluencing the lives of his contemporaries. The picture of the future is such as is needed by the present. Isaiah and Jeremiah present the gloomy prospect of captivity in Assyria and Babylon, while a later prophet, just before the exile period closes, points in glowing terms the glories of the return to Judea. The prophet was in an important sense, a man of his time, and he always appeared in connection with great national epochs which demanded his presence. As men of their times, occupying a definite place in the history...
...winged composite creatures answering to the Hebrew cherubim; but the account of a seduction of man by a tempter has not yet come to light. Corresponding to the ten antediluvian patriarchs of Genesis, the Babylonians believed in ten kings whose reign had extended over a fabulous period of time. The deluge story, which is an episode in the national epic, is too similar to the version in Genesis for the two to be of different origin. The ruined tower of Borsippe, called Birs Nimrud, has long been associated with the Tower of Babel. Several stereopticon views of this magnificent ruin...