Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Conscious sources are very difficult. Why should men write that the future may read? The only solution is the literary impulse which has always existed with greater or less power. In ancient and mediaeval times notices of sacred days contained appendices of the important events which had occurred since the last notifications. Unfortunately, most of the annalists of the middle ages were unintelligent. Most of the original sources of the history of this era have now been printed, through the energy of the modern German scholars. This brings up the invention of printing, the great value of which...
...Hamilton, '87, has been offered the professorship of ancient languages at Chattanooga University...
...realize that, in changing the marking system, they have demanded that every man in college shall obtain a yearly average of 60 per cent., instead of 50? And this, in face of the fact that the rigorously-minded instructors have not departed one jot or one tittle from their ancient rigor. I think I may safely say that I voice the opinion of the majority of the students (not that the majority have been dropped), when I urge that, if we must cling to the new marking system, the letter D be made to mean a mark from forty...
Apropos of the purchase of some real estate in Ohio, by the trustees of the University, an exchange has the following: "Is it not a little sad that Harvard should have to buy up the ancient mounds of Ohio to preserve them from destruction...
When we come to consider feats of strength and agility, and to compare as far as possible those performed now and in earlier times, the advantage seems to lie with the moderns. There are really no definite accounts of what the ancient Greeks and Romans were able to do. There are many mythical ones, and even when there are any that may possibly be statements of facts, there is nothing to gauge what they are really worth. We have a little more knowledge of what was done in the middle ages, but not much. For instance, King Teutobach...