Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of art that it was in the plays of Aristophanes, to which he so aptly refers. He renders his style piquant from a wealth of allusions drawn from a comprehensive knowledge of literature. If writers of the present day possessed this cultural foundation of familiarity with their classics, ancient and modern, they would not have to rack their brains and torment their dictionaries for an exotic array of adjectives and adverbs in order to stimulate interest...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Eoliths, Geologically and Archaeologically the most Ancient Specimens of Chipped Stone." Dr. Charles Peabody. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...following appointments have recently been approved by the board of Overseers: Silas Marcus Macvane '73, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus; Charles Herbert Moore h.'90, professor of Art Emeritus; Frederic Ward Putnam '62, Peabody professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Emeritus; Charles Joyce White '59, professor of Mathematics Emeritus; John Williams White, professor of Greek Emeritus; William Barker Hills '71, associate professor of Chemistry Emeritus; Louis Allard, assistant professor of French...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Eoliths, Geologically and Archaeologically the most Ancient Specimens of Chipped Stone." Dr. Charles Peabody. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...PHILOSOPHICAL CLUB. "Ancient Philosophy and Religion of Vedanta." Swami Paramananda. Common Room, Conant Hall...