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...punishers of perjurers after death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...
...cultus of the dead comprises the observances and offerings paid to the dead as sentient beings. So widespread has been this cultus from the earliest ages that Spencer tries to derive all religion from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead according as they see good or evil following their acts. The sentiments which lead to this invocation of the dead vary among different people. Sometimes the terror of the dead predominates, and we find various charms and obstacles employed to prevent the return of the dead to the places which they...
...replacing the old methods of teaching throughout the country. By the application of that system at Harvard he built up the department of chemistry and gave it a recognized position in the scientific world. Professor Cooke himself was a scholar of the highest rank and his individual investigations attracted widespread attention both in the United States and in Europe. He wrote a large number of books and papers and lectured frequently on scientific subjects. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Cambridge and was one of the most prominent members of the American Academy of Arts...
...communication in regard to the representation of the Scientific School on Commencement Day is published because it very likely gives expression to a widespread conception and not because it reflects the real state of affairs. The speakers on Commencement Day are not selected in the same manner from all the departments of the University. The College, for example, sets a definite standard which students must reach in order to compete, while the Law School Faculty simply calls for volunteers and selects the most fitting representative from these. The matter is largely one of custom, the one desire being to secure...
...students would fully compensate for a fraction of time taken from regular college work, and would be of such rare value that no small objection should be allowed to destroy the possibility of it. The failure to make satisfactory arrangements would be a matter of such widespread regret that we anticipate no lack either of effort on the part of the New Harvard Union officials or of consideration on the part of the college authorities...