Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amusing as well as valuable first edition of the Poems of John Milton, dated 1645, is also on display in the Memorial Room. Under the engraving of Milton in the frontispiece is an inscription in Greek. It is evident that the engraver could not read the ancient tongue of the Hellenes, and that Milton had a quiet little joke at his expense. The inscription reads, "When you compare this with the form Nature herself fashioned, you will say that the picture has been engraved by an unskilled hand. Friends of mine not recognizing this portrait will please laugh...
...courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality; and no accumulation of degrees transform a great...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...
...Book, like most modern biography, wears the gallant armour of fiction rather than the awkward and improbable stays of legend. At the head of each chapter Author Russell has scribbled lines from The Ancient Mariner, and these, in their wild fire, seem to illuminate the career of another careless sailor, pursued by a fate more stubborn than an albatross. Hitherto the life of John Paul Jones has been clothed in mystery or history-book nonsense. Now, when the ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire...
Chadwick holds one of the two Davison Scholarships providing for a year's study at Harvard for students of Oxford and Cambridge. At Oxford, his field of concentration was Ancient History and Philosophy. The Renaissance and Reformation, and Economics, are the subjects of his further study this year...