Word: aeschylus
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...among four different departments of the graduate school. First prizes of $200 each were awarded to Henry Siggins Leonard 2G, of Newton, for his essay on "Plato's Theory of Logical Division" and to Chester Linn Shaver 1G, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, for an essay named "The Moral Idealism of Aeschylus." "Hunting Oil with Dynamite," by Lewis Don Leet 2G, of Cambridge, and "Aspects of the Control of Animal Conduct," by Theodore James Blanchard Stier 4G, both brought second prize awards of $100 to their authors...
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...whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about how men may be forlorn and heroes. They, like Herodotus, would see the eternal and astounding spectacle of a fantastic king marching an army through wild mountains by the sea; later, they would hear of the careless youth of Athens who "had never tasted...