Word: ancient
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...children of the country a training in the manual arts. There is so much illiteracy among the working people that it is impossible to better their mental condition. Mr. Dharmapala therefore, desires to regenerate these people by educating the children in elementary science and by reviving the forgotten ancient arts. He has already sent many ploughs and other farming implements to start the proposed school...
...journey, which was made during the past summer, was undertaken on the invitation of M. Raphael Pumpelay, who was conducting an exploration in Western Asia for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, with the object of studying the relation of the geographical features of the region to its occupation by ancient peoples. Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past...
...State Board of Charities, of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester; of the Lancaster Town Library and Committee, and of the G. A. R. During the Civil War he was adjutant and captain of the 55th Illinois volunteers. He was professor of ancient languages at the Phillips Exeter Academy from 1853 to 1955. As an author he was the writer of many well-known antiquarian works...
...clock this evening in the Fogg Lecture Room, Dr. A. W. Ryder, Instructor in Sanskrit in the University, will give a lecture on an ancient Sanskrit Drama, "The Little Cart." Dr. Ryder will give translation in English prose and verse of selected scenes...
...Lecture. The Little Clay Cart (an ancient Sanskrit drama). Dr. A. W. Ryder. Fogg Lecture Room...