Word: ancient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Topics No. 6, under Ancient and Oriental Languages, and Nos. 6 and 16 under Modern Literature have been withdrawn...
Finally the college has received a number of material gifts, among which may be mentioned as curiosities a miniature portrait of George Washington, from a member of Parliament from Mid-Worcester, an ancient watch, a bronze bust of George Bancroft (now in the Library), and a portrait of Galileo for the Observatory...
...this afternoon at 2.15 p. m., and this evening at 7.15 p. m. The subject matter will be the same for the two reviews. I shall deem it a favor if those who conveniently can will attend in the afternoon rather than in the evening. Please bring Reber's Ancient Art. The reviews will be illustrated by photographs. Fee. $3 cash...
...evidences of Christianity. The speaker contrasted the English requirements with ours, showing the demands of the Oxford and Cambridge examinations. He presented the German Gymnasium as the best model. Before the student reaches Cicero and the Odyssey he has completed Bible history. In the next year he studies the ancient Church, in his last years the modern. He gives two hours weekly to the study. A recent visitor in Germany reports it among the most popular studies...
...remarkable collection of meteorites. There is not another collection like it in America, and even the British Museum cannot produce such specimens as some of those to be seen in the Harvard Collection. Although the study of meteorites is only comparatively recent, these falling bodies were noted in ancient times and thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount. There is a meteoric stone in the British Museum which fell...