Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Joad, the High Priest, loyal to Jehovah and the house of David, devotes himself to the restoration of the ancient faith. Biding his time he steadily prepares for a revolution. In the seventh year of Athalie's reign things are ripe for a change. Joah, who has won over the queen's body-guard, makes them swear fidelity to the young king, now a child of seven...
They are originals of plates one and two of Frederick Catherwood's folio publication on the ancient monuments of Central America, published in London in 1844, and were made by him from his sketches of the ruins of Copan in 1839. The casts of these idols are now on exhibition in the Museum...
...paper which he read at the meeting of the American Philological Association in 1871 attracted the attention of several members of this faculty, notably of the late Professor Gurney; and in 1873 he was called to our University as Tutor in Greek. In 1874, however, he became Professor of Ancient Languages in the new University of Cincinnati. From Cincinnati he was invited to Yale University in 1879; and in 1880 he accepted an appointment to our own University as Professor of Classical Philology. This last position he continued to occupy till his death, with the exception of the year...
...both of mind and of temper, to make him a superior teacher of advanced pupils. For him classical learning was no mere accomplishment, a pleasing ornament for a man of letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted by that and in turn themselves to interpret it. He said once, laughingly, that we called the Romans ancient, but when they were alive they thought themselves as modern as anybody there...
...also a very keen taste for music as well as knowledge of the art and skill in composition. All this was of very great value in the study of literatures, whose whole poetry was based on that art. It was only through him that our Latin play in its ancient form became possible, and the music was all his work...