Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much time to social and physical recreation, American students too often commit sins of omission in regard to study. Their French contemporaries are more apt to commit sins of commission in attempting to master an overwhelming mass of information. One university course abroad includes thirty French authors and twelve ancient authors, with a knowledge of the complete works of three. The attempt to cover so much material encourages mechanical learning of facts far more than original thought or understanding...
...Hoot" was edited by one of Yale's brightest of bright young men, Mr. William Harlan Hale, who, since his graduation has kept his by-line alive in periodicals of greater scope and pretentions, but who, to accomplish his aim, had resigned from the editorial board of the ancient. "Yale Literary Magazine," taking a companion or so with...
...differ entirely from the ones now in use. In 1820 the prospective student had to be: "Well versed in the grammar of the English, Latin and Greek languages; in 'Virgil', Cicero's 'Select Orations', 'Salust', 'The Greek Testament', Dalzel's 'Collectanea Graeca Minora', 'Latin and Greek Prosody', 'Arithmetick', and 'Ancient and Modern Geography...
Enjoying the brisk October sunshine, a middle-aged man strolled along Manhattan's art-dealers row, East 57th Street, last week. Before the E. & A. Silberman Galleries he paused, startled. In the window was a large and ancient painting of Susanna. And Susanna was naked. The middle-aged man entered...
England's too exclusive emphasis upon the training of leaders was, of course, the natural outcome of her ancient and still dominant social system. It led inevitably to the conclusion, which Washington so often expressed with reference to military leadership, that the best leaders almost inevitably come from what is called "the ruling class." Thus, England's earliest educational development, indeed, almost her only advanced educational development until 1870, was the highly exclusive and class-conscious "public schools" and universities...