Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen him often in his home. It is in a man's home-his real milieu-that he is most himself. The outside world of business cares is far away. In his home I found Mr. Mellon a cultured gentleman, surrounded by the best in art, ancient and modern...
...remained for Brown University to propound the modern application of that ancient pedagogical canon, mens sana in corpore sano. Last week, President W. H. P. Faunce announced that hereafter his undergraduates will be examined not only as to their lungs, hearts, livers and eyes by physicians, but also as to their worries, doubts, despairs, loves and hates by trained psychologists. There will be the physical examination at the gymnasium, the psychological examination in the laboratory...
...Properly speaking, the gypsies are a race by themselves, known in western Europe since 1417. In language and origin they are Hindus, speaking a corrupt Sanskrit dialect. Strong admixtures of Persian, Slavonic, Magyar and Greek blood and language were picked up in their migrations. As inhabitants of the ancient Greek empire or Empire of New Rom, they were identified as Romanoi before the prouder term Hellenes was assumed by the Greeks...
...book much that would take them home from wherever they might be on the earth. So he wrote of the fragrance and spaciousness of an Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like a soft threat...
...wished to evict that the greatest excavation in Europe since Pompeii might be made. Last fortnight, this digging finally began. Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden Age. The digging is entirely under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens*; after 30 years or so of labor, the Agora will be given back...