Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster's Clerk James F. Dickey paused to exchange a word with the acting warden, Lieut. James L. Denham of the U. S. Marines. They stepped inside to inspect the ancient odorous cells...
...Literature, Ancient Authors (Honors...
...school of which Meiklejohn is the head at Wisconsin is an experiment conducted for the first two college years of men who wish to enter the school. For the freshman year, men do nothing but study the ancient Greek civilization and philosophy in all its phases, and in their next year they make a study of modern civilization, with an idea of comparing the two. Junior and Senior years are spent in the college proper. This year the board of trustees of Wisconsin voted to discontinue the school for the present freshman class, and its future is undecided. Professor Meiklejohn...
Because Giovanni Fummi, his representative in Rome, arrived at Naples to talk business, John Pierpont Morgan abandoned a special-train ride to the archaeological diggings at Pesto (the ancient Graeco-Roman city of Paestum) and thus, with his yacht-guest, the Archbishop of Canterbury, missed the unearthing of a fine bronze satyr...
...news was not deflated by analysis. Drew University, in addition to its 17½% of the residuary, received the ugly brick house outright and that is one of the most valuable pieces in the whole estate. The reason for the favoritism toward Drew was found last week in the ancient records of the Wendel family. Its first president, Dr. John McClintock who died in 1870, was pastor at the Wendels' church and in his biography are two letters to Old J. D. Wendel. Each of eleven Wendels (the first in 1896) had $10,000 memorials established for them at Drew...