Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...history was instituted. It was the first distinct endowment of that special branch in any particular college, and it led the way to the recognition of history as worthy of an independent chair in all our better institutions of learning. The first incumbent of the McLean Professorship of ancient and modern history, was Jared Sparks, A. M., who was at that time engaged upon the pioneer work in the field of American history. Although Cornell was the first institution in America to establish a special chair for this branch of historical instruction, the most important to Americans, Harvard...
Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. M. L. Kellner. Subject "Ancient Hebrew Art," 7 Lowell street...
...jokes harder and harder to see; the bright verse more and more scarce. The double page and then even the full-page pictures disappeared and small society pictures with jokes (?) that would fit any one of them equally well, were substituted instead. Finally, to complete the destruction of its ancient character, the Lampoon's cover was changed into a cheap copy of that of Life. In fact, the whole paper is apparently aiming to reproduce a Lampoonized edition of Life, its style of pictures, its jokes (?) and its clippings. Why the Lampoon, which was the father of Life...
MONDAY. 5.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. M. L. Kellner. Subject: "Ancient Hebrew Art," 7 Lowell street...
...more suggestion and I close. Why not have two or more men to keep the time and let the referee give his undivided attention to the ball? I say two, because there is less likelihood of a mistake, real or intentional, where two men are concerned. Like the ancient Roman consuls, one would act as a drag upon the other...