Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These lectures are intended primarily for students in the University or Radcliffe who are concentrating in modern and ancient literature. Their purpose is to furnish some guides and suggestions for further study by the students. No tickets are required for admission, the series being open to all members of the University and Radcliffe College...
...completion of three hundred years of its history. While the important role which the American university plays in our national life will be made evident, the assembling of distinguished scholars from many countries will demonstrate the international character of scholarship and "commemorate the extension" to this continent of the ancient world" of learning"--a message we are prone to forget. For a month or more next Autumn Harvard University itself will be "on view" to the general public, affording opportunity to all who are interested to become better acquainted with our first American college, which has grown into a university...
...read between the lines of Dr. E. J. Simmons's recent study, "English Literature and Culture in Russia." Solovyev writes further, pointing out the obvious with all the modesty and non-chalance of genius: "It is often overlooked that the theme in 'Hamlet' is only a revival of the ancient theme of Orestes." The Shakespere critique is only a rather long deviation from the real subject, which is the life-drama of Plato and Socrates, but it is an "aside" that intensifies the interest of the main theme. Perhaps Solovyev is so stimulating a critic because he was himself...
...call for a voice vote, a stocky, red-faced, small-chinned, little figure popped out of the cloakroom, began shouting: "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" It was Ohio's Representative Martin Leo Sweeney, oldtime Cleveland politician, apostle of Father Coughlin and Dr. Townsend who, as national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, made 1,000 anti-British speeches before going to Congress...
Samples: To leave no stone unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence...