Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proper that a young man of the twentieth century, in mapping out his college course, should turn towards subjects that offer new outlooks and new possibilities of investigation, not realized by preceding generations. The apparent remoteness of Greek and Roman civilization and the long accumulation of important criticism upon ancient art and literature have obscured the indubitable fact that the Classics present such opportunities in the same degree as Economics or Science...
...Peacocks"; S. C. Johnson, "Chats on Military Curios"; Rudyard Kipling, "France at War"; Princess Hrebebanovich Lazarovich, "Memoirs"; Stephen Leacock, "Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy"; Walter Lippman, "The Stakes of Diplomacy"; R. C. Long, "Colours of War"; Lucien Lord, "Leaves from the Signal Elm"; C. Maspero, "Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt"; E. L. Masters, "Spoon River Anthology"; W. B. Munro, "A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States"; F. S. Oliver. "Ordeal by Battle"; E. R. and J. Pennell, "Lithography and Lithogarphers"; Ernest Poole, "The Harbor"; Richard Pryce, "David Penstephen"; Annual Register, 1914; Upton Sinclair, editor, "The Cry for Justice...
...Lord, O my Soul" (Liturgy), M. Ippolitoff-Ivanoff.The Cherubimic Hymn (The Great Entrance at the Liturgy), P. Tchaikovsky"My soul shall exault in the Lord" Liturgy), M. Balakireff"God is with us" (Christmas Eve), A. Kastalsky"Meet is it" (Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom), V. TcherepninLord, have mercy, An Ancient ChantLord, have mercy, G. Lvovsk
...experience which produces it is universal and intelligible. Now the minister is set to develop and guide this religious instinct, and his profession becomes, therefore, one of the permanent forms of human activity, independent of those changes in social commercial, industrial and political life by which less ancient and less essential professions are affected...
...hectic letter to the editor, "War--and the Millenium," in which he asserts that "War is the raging drink of life and death, or hell and heaven, pressed by the hand of a God of Battles into a full cup." He also confides to the editor, "I am an ancient cave-man in my inmost soul. My heart is hot to drink the cup of wrath, to press the rue from the drunken bowl." But President Wilson in his message says that "If our citizens are ever to fight effectively upon a sudden summons, they must know how modern fighting...