Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Matthew Lowrie '98, lives in Warrior's Mark, Pa. He also prepared at Lawrenceville, graduating in the class of '94. In Clio Hall he won the Freshman Declamation Contest and Sophomore Prize Debate. Last year he won first prize in the general competitive debate in Hall, was chosen by his class to be its Washington's Birthday Orator, and won the Junior Oratorical Contest at Commencement. This year he won the second disputation prize in the Baird Contest and has been elected Class Orator. He represented Princton in the recent Yale Debate and will represent Clio Hall in the Lynde...
...time of Moses there ruled over Assyria a king named Ramman-nirarl, a great warrior and builder. From the ruins of a temple which he restored comes an alabaster tablet, twelve inches by nine, with an inscription recording the restoration. This tablet, recently presented to the Semitic Museum, will be the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian reading in the Fogg Art Museum at four o'clock today. It will be exhibited and explained, and will be illustrated by lantern slides giving views of Assyrian books, ruins and temples...
...trouble that came to him in later life helped to make him God's child. And at all periods God has been the God of every class of men, and not of the saint alone. The influence of God makes a fuller life. If He comes to minister, warrior or statesman He makes deeds and words strong and divine. In every man there is potential greatnes and when God's influences are brought to bear on this it springs and grows, and the mean man becomes broad and honorable, the weak, strong and the dull, wise...
...ancient Greek "Episkuros," much like the modern game, would seem to have the priority. The Romans also had a game much resembling ours. In England foot ball has been played for hundreds of years and it is said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans, and in 1829 the game there is described as played between parishes and as a kind of "cross-country" affair, with more than a thousand players. "Broken shins, broken heads...
...more terrible than could ever be described by mortal power, and the monsters that filled the waters were all the more dreadful from being so vaguely described in the Eddic poems. Within Walhalla reigned Odin, the god of wind and war, and his subjects were the soulds of warriors who had perished in battle. No men who died peaceably in bed could expect to have their souls mount to Walhalla, the palace of happiness, where the warrior's life was so idealized as to be a continual round of feasting and revelry...