Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intent of these meetings which grouped together bear the name of "Introduction To Ancient Civilization" is well expressed in the syllabus issued by the Department: "it (the plan) is designed to form an organic whole, and to stimulate students not merely to acquire information but also to think about what they learn, and to see the relation between modern and ancient civilization...
...case it is to be hoped that another journal of similar nature will be born to take its place. The Advocate, if it pursues its present policy of a liberal conservatism, will ably care for the less volatile aspirants to literary fame and moreover its foundations are too ancient and secure to be shaken by whims and caprices. With the present arrangement the publications outlook at Harvard is balanced to an unhoped for degree of nicety...
...Yale to fight it out with Dartmouth for the championship of New England. Yale seems to have the edge on anything else in Connecticut, and Harvard is the class of Massachusetts, including Williams, Amherst, and the Sargent School for Physical Education. Harvard and Yale are shorn of their ancient glory: Now they are nothing more than institutions of learning. --The Chicago Tribune...
...University of Wisconsin, famed for its journalistic educator President Glenn Frank, for its great economist Prof. Robert Commons (who dares chew tobacco in the President's office), Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* started his Experimental College. At this unit of the University, students will study exclusively a single civilization, the Ancient Greek. In so doing, they are not called upon to master the Greek language. ¶At Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., 40 Freshmen voluntarily shaved their own heads in a "Free Will Hair Offering", since upperclassmen are restrained by law from forceful hazing. ¶ Columbia University, in its 174th year, welcomed...
Foreign bonds are an ancient incident of the exchange activities. On July 1 were listed 255 foreign bond issues with market value of about...