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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...e speaker, Sam- uel Shepard Rogers, Jr.,attempted Continued on page 4. OLD MASTERS Professor Rice Lectures Upon Raphael and Rembrandt The fourth of Pr... ...s. FOOTBALL ELECTION to Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 Manag^e Team in 1908 At a college meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909... ...hief. GhkaM) Mygatt iqoS, News Editor E. H. Wood icja^ At. I.. Eknst 1909, College N'oles. Alumni News. G ENOELiiAKn 3909, A. 1. Santky igtx), M.W.Mac... ... Picture Frames, Etc. ^ A DeCOratlOnS EDDIE DEMPSEY, Agent 244 Upland Road CAMBRIDGE, HASS. Reserved for ^ A THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hot... ...iudioated by tlie following scores : Holy Cross 11 M. A. C. 6 Holy Cross 7 Trinity 6 Hnly Cross 1 Georgetown Holy Cross 1 Wesleynn Ford will probably ... ..., Allen '08: Horrax, Mar- shall '09; J. F. Crawford, Kelley '10. GAME WITH TRINITY A. D. BA8TIEN Orange and Blue Wednesday on Weston Field—Visitors' S... ... . After a haul has been mode the fish are split, salted and traded to the masters of the trad- ing schooners who make a busi- ness of "doing" the nat...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...tr. R.A. Nicholson, Mysticism— A Study and an Anthology, ed. F.C. Happold, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Er... ...uddhist teachings of nirvana and karma, and the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and of predestination, discussed in Chapters 2 and 3 on Buddhism an... ...d we may come to imagine that we have finally solved the difficulty; but Zen masters will assure you that even then Zen is yet three thousand miles away... ...ficially termed the Holy Spirit, as a third “person” of God, making a neat Trinity. In popular thought the Holy Spirit was usually conceived of as div... ...ltimately all 91. George Fox, The Journal of George Fox, (revised edition) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1952; p.642. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION... ...uced to white culture at age fifteen and he later graduated from Dartmouth College and got his MD from Boston University. Dr Eastman was the physician... ...stianity and into skills which could make them useful as servants to white masters. Their life decisions were made by a “protector,” always with his g...

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS,...

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...SCHOOL TIME (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 BOOK FOURTH SUMMER V ACATION . . . .... ...IFTH BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE ... ...ESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . 213 ADVERTISEMENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occ... ...nd nothing cheered our way till first we saw The long roofed chapel of King’s College lift Turrets and pinnacles in answering files, 5 Extended high abo... ... and in the first Was my abiding place, a nook obscure; Right underneath, the College kitchens made 50 A humming sound, less tuneable than bees, But ha... ...us; with shrill notes Of sharp command and scolding intermixed. Near me hung Trinity’s loquacious clock, Who never let the quarters, night or day, 55 ... ... we preserved 475 Religiously that vow; but firmness failed, Nor were we ever masters of our wish. And when thereafter to my father’s house The holiday... ...dd, 270 With ample recompense) giants and dwarfs, Clowns, conjurors, posture masters, harlequins, Amid the uproar of the rabblement, Perform their fea...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... letter or apology by Athanasius?... And surely it was impossible that the Trinity could have appeared visibly as a triangle and an eye. Above such an... ...painted with a symbol—some symbol—also? But was that disputation about the Trinity at all? Wasn’t it rather about a chalice and a dove? Of course it w... ...ould he do something very bold and striking? Should he invite both men and masters to the cathedral, and preach tremendous sermons to them upon these ... ...nk—that she is not being educated properly here, that she ought to go to a College. As if we were keeping things from her….” The bishop reconsidered h... ...y think of—things in gen- eral.” The bishop reflected. “She wants to go to College.” “They want to go in a set.” 30 The Soul of a Bishop “I wonder i... ...opinion. Why was the church such a failure? Why had it no grip upon either masters or men amidst this vigorous life of modern industri- alism, and why... ...he sweet air of Hunstanton. He had gone there at times to read, in the old Cambridge days. “It is a terribly ugly place,” he said, “but it is wine in ...

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