Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pilgrims, Purchas, Vol. 5-8. Weihe, Chamiso, 2, vols. Annual Register, 1904. Life of Reason, Santayana, vols. 3 and 4. Essentials in American History, Hart. Actual Government, Hart. Renan, Barry. Mount Desert, a history, Street. The Philippine Islands, Atkinson. A Southern Girl in '61, Wright. The Ancient Grudge, Pier. Knock at a Venture, Phillpotts. Autobiography, Andrew White. Russia and its Crisis, Milyoukov McAllister and his Double, Train. The Garden of Allah, Hichens. The Irrational Knot, Shaw. The House of Mirth, Wharton. My Friend the Chauffeur, Williamson. The Divine Fire, Sinclair, Iole, Chambers. The Appreciation of Pictures, Sturgis. The Ways...
...Pasadena, California, has recently presented as a gift to the University a large oak exhibition case, which has been placed in the Reading Room of the Union. It is intended to have a different exhibtion in the case each week during the year. Last week a set of ancient armor plates from the Spitzer Collection was shown, and this week the case contains an excellent collection of ancient sculpture...
...making a complete circuit of the island and crossing it through the interior, the main party alone travelling nearly 900 miles of the total distance. Several botanical collections were made and considerable work done in ornithology. In none of the caves or other places visited were any remains of ancient date discovered, and it was concluded from this that the island was probably not inhabited prior to its settlement by the Norwegians...
...Engineering, to C.L.B. Shuddemagen 1G., for an essay entitled "Some Facts and Theories in Solar Physics"; group 2--for the best essay on Biology, Geology or Anthropology, to A.F. Blakeslee, A.M. '00, for an essay entitled "Sexual Reproduction in the Mucorineae"; group 3--for the best essay on Ancient Languages or Literature, to D.P. Lockwood 2G., for an essay entitled "Pliny the Younger, an Appreciation...
...venerable traditions serve nowadays no better purpose than to get venturesome youths into tight places, and fathers of sons don't want them to stay in force. I have no doubt at all that the older Med. Fac. men have jumped at this chance to send the ancient society to its long home. But that can only be done by the co-operation of a good many minds, in different stages of development, and that co-operation is much easier secured under pressure of some urgent inducement. There is everything to be gained by the Dean's plan, and nothing...