Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...towards the Freshmen and the honored customs, once so faithfully carried out, are vividly brought before our minds by the epithet even now applied to this first Monday of our year, namely "bloody"-and epithet which is one of our inheritances from our ancestors. The term has lost its ancient meaning and significance. We do not regret that the days of hazing, of pitched battle between the classes, of unseemly rioting are practically at an end; but even now in its degradation, the festival of the opening days of college is celebrated in a way which must heartily be condemned...
Prof. E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking in a publication of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, of the expansion of college work from its ancient narrow field of mathematics and the classics to the broader field in which modern languages, history, political economy, philosophy and the sciences occupy an equal place with mathematics and classics, writes as follows...
...Minnesota Historical Society has just been presented by the Hon. L. D. Gilfillan with an ancient work on Geography, in three volumes. The books, which are printed in Latin and bound in parchment, are entitled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlus Novus." It was printed in 1645 at Amsterdam, and bears the name of a famous geographer of that time, Joannes Bloev, as author. The "Atlas Hovus is full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures...
Among the most charming of Macauley's works for light reading are his celebrated "Lays of Ancient Rome." These scattered bits of verse have been collected and published together in a most attractive form by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The book is a small pocket edition, very tastefully bound, with clear print, and is profusely illustrated. Each of the lays is prefaced by a brief history of the event to which the poem refers. In addition to the lays. a few of Macauley's shorter poems have been appended, such as the "Battle of Ivory," the "Armada" and others...
...Tekoa. It was just before the first Assyrian invasion-a time of great prosperity in Israel. He foresaw that the luxurious habits of the Jews would render them an easy prey to the enemy. The book of Amos consists of four parts: the introduction describing the downfall of many ancient cities because of this corruption, then four prophecies of disaster to Israel, then a series of prophetic visions, concluding with a general prophecy of glory and power in the future. The reading of the book was interspersed with historical and geographical explanatory remarks...