Word: ancient
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...popular governments examined in the previous lectures show many variations in type between the ancient and modern republics. Many phenomena belong to the United States which do not appear in other governments. The city governments in this country are acknowledged to be some distance short of perfection. Those of the English cities, on the other hand, and of most of the cities of the rest of Europe work perfectly easily...
...will be held in Beck 25 on Monday, to form a numismatic society. The object of the organization is to get some idea of Greek art as shown in the coins. The subject will be studied from an artistic standpoint rather than an antiquarian one, and all phases of ancient art and antiquities will be considered. Several members of the Faculty will lend their active support and prominent men will later be invited to speak. All men interested are urged to attend the first meeting...
...Farabee, instructor in the Department of Anthropology, will conduct an anthropological trip through the West this summer for the purpose of studying the native tribes and ancient ruins. The party will leave Cambridge on July 4 and will reach St. Louis on the morning of July 6. They will spend about four days at the Exposition and will also visit the Cahokia mound group, the largest Indian mound in America, which is a few miles outside of St. Louis. The party will then proceed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they will spend a day at the important Jarvy Museum. From...
...ride five or six hundred miles through northern New Mexico and Arizona and southern Colorado and Utah. This part of the trip will occupy about a month. Among the most interesting places they will visit are the modern pueblo Zuni, the largest in the West, the remnant of the ancient "seven cities of Cibola," and Moki, where they will see the snake dance...
...neat performance, whether by the friends we love or by the foes we ought to cherish. Let all allowances be made for excusable and inoffensive partisanship,--barring the unmelodious horn of cracked tin,--but in our partisan enthusiasm let us not overstep the boundaries of courtesy. Even among the ancient Hebrews, whose code demanded eye for eye and tooth for tooth, the stranger who was in their camp, within their gates, was to be left unvexed and unoppressed...