Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago delivered a sermon last night in Appleton Chapel on "The Need of Man for Religion and the Spiritual Life." Dr. Hirsch said, in part, that the ancient Hebrewa were deeply stirred by the phenomena of nature which they saw about them. The constant struggle for existence made them feel keenly the blessings sent through the rain and the growing crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty...
...David Kimball. This collection, which for many years was on exhibition at the Boston Museum, consists of Indian relics and curios obtained by Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers about the year 1804. Chief among the curiosities are buffalo robes decorated according to the art of the times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration which was long ago superseded by bead work. In addition to these there...
...Ancient Troy. (Illustrated). Professor Goodwin...
First year--Technical and Historical development of the Ancient styles with especial reference to Classic Architecture, Elementary Architectural Drawing, Plane Trigonometry, Rhetoric and English Composition, Botany, Principles of Delineation, Color and Chiaroscuro, French or German...
...result of recent purchases the Fogg Museum has now on exhibition three new valuable works of art. These are, the Jacobsen collection, consisting of one hundred and four photographs of ancient sculpture in the Museum of Copenhagen: a set of engravings for the Gray Collection, comprising eight etchings of Turner's "Liber Studiorum," which the Museum has been fortunate in obtaining, as none have been on sale since 1891; and a collection of two hundred and thirty photographs obtained from the administration of the Berlin Galleries. Among these pictures of notable ancient sculpture is that of one style...