Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor Edward S. King, passed away this afternoon, February 22, after an illness of two weeks of pleuro-pneumonia. Although only 21 years old, he displayed an extraordinary brilliancy and versatility of mind. He took part in the work of the Harvard Observatory and showed that the ancient instrument, the abacus, could be used to advantage in calculations there. One of his latest enterprises was the study of color in the department of fine arts, a work so highly appreciated that he received an appropriation from the American Academy, the youngest recipient of such an honor. It is difficult...
Latin and Greek are to be discarded, but the older children are to be familiarized with ancient thought and literature through translations. Formal grammar will be dispensed with except as special need of it may be felt. The emphasis is to be on science and modern languages. A good deal of attention will be paid to the fine arts, not with the idea of training poets, musicians and painters, but in order that pupils may enjoy poetry, music and painting...
...untried as the men who then occupied them for the first time. These dignified and seasoned Juniors, already pressing close on the heels of the retiring class of 1917, are now about to follow the well-established precedent of choosing homes for themselves in the Yard. Housed beneath the ancient roofs that have sheltered many generations of Harvard men, and surrounded by groups of old and well-tried friendships, they may round out the last and pleasantest year of their college life. After a separation of two years, old friendships will be renewed. The process of unification and good-fellowship...
...Rest lightly, war, upon this ancient town...
...single artistic achievement of this book is the subtle suggestion of war that runs through it. From the first poem, in which we come to the river-dock at day-break, to the last poem, in which we rise before dawn to take an early train away from the ancient city, there is the quiet echo of fighting that is more impressive for its quietness...