Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course will include lectures on special topics by Professors Goodwin, Lyon and Lanman; on the Origin of the Tribe, by Miss Alice C. Fletcher; on the Ancient Egyptians by Mrs. C. Stevenson; others to be announced...
...from the last annual report of the board of directors charged with the care of Girard College. Changes which the founder would not have contemplated have been introduced and modern appliances such as he and his generation never dreamed of are now in daily use. The report says: "The ancient curriculum of the college, admirable, perhaps, in the early history of the institution, with less than five hundred scholars, but without many of the plans and appliances which modern modes of thought and of action make necessary for efficient work in the school-room, received much attention from the committee...
...revival of the study of ancient Greek art and sculpture showed the painters of the early fifteenth century the errors in their technique, and sent new painters to nature for models. They studied now with a greater love of truth and precision...
With the opening of the fifteenth century the new movement for the revival of ancient art and literature began in earnest, and this movement found its most perfect expression in art. This was chiefly owing to the Italian nature, which had received all its classical and biblical instruction from colored object teaching. Painting was the color thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time...
...question as to whether there was or was not a stage in the ancient Greek theatres is, he writes, still discussed in Athens. The head of the French school, Homolle, has proposed to attack Dr. Dorpfeld's theory as to the matter, in which case Professor White proposes to re-establish it in an open meeting of the American School. Among the interesting discoveries made in the recent excavations there, is one by Dr. Dorpfeld, who thinks that he has discovered the much discussed sanctuary of Dionysus in the Marshes, southwest of the Acropolis, a place where it has never...