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Word: ancient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pursue archaeological research in America is offered by the American Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America for the coming summer. An expedition under the personal direction of Mr. E. L. Hewett will leave Bluff, Utah, on July 1 for an exploring trip through the region of the ancient pueblos and cliff houses. Another expedition will start from Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 15 to explore certain ruins in New Mexico. Students desiring to join one or both of these expeditions will be accepted as volunteer assistants and will be expected to provide their equipment and to pay their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Work in Archaeology | 6/10/1907 | See Source »

...presentation of their subjects; nothing, for instance, could be more delightful than Professor Rand's exposition of Horace. We hope that men who wish to take the word-puzzle view of the classics will be relegated to courses of their own, and that all the courses in these ancient literatures will become, as many of them now are, an inducement to men to return to the fountains of our own greatest thoughts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLASSICS AT HARVARD | 5/23/1907 | See Source »

Semitic Languages and History, Professor D.G. Lyon h.'01; Ancient Languages, Professor J.H. Wright; Germanic Languages and Literatures, Professor J.A. Walz '95; History and Government, Assistant Professor A.C. Coolidge '87; Political Economy, Professor E.F. Gay; Chemistry, Professor T.W. Richards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appointments by the Corporation | 5/20/1907 | See Source »

...years, but five regular courses. One of these is an elementary course in the rudiments of drawing and water-color. Two others cover the same ground and cannot therefore be counted towards a degree. It is then an actual fact that the entire history of painting, sculpture and architecture, ancient and modern, is covered by three courses! And, more-over, one of these, though it is disguised under the name of the "History of Landscape Painting," is really a history of the art of John Turner. No one would term Fine Arts 3, which covers one-half the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS | 5/18/1907 | See Source »

...nothing more striking about the poem than the uniformity of splendor in which it was written. In some manner a great Homeric style was built up which could be reproduced by the ordinary minstrel without effort, provided he had been trained along that line. In the works of these ancient minstrels we are brought face to face with something more august than mere individual genius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Murray's Lecture on the Iliad | 5/9/1907 | See Source »

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