Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidate chooses among the number of institutions which help to support this school. Upon the following subjects will be based the main part of the examinations: Modern Greek, The Elements of Greek Epigraphy, Introduction to Greek Archeology, Greek Architecture, Sculpture and Vases, Pausanias, and the Monuments and Typography of Ancient Athens...
...importance is the refinement which the Fine Arts add to an education, of mere book-lore. There is a cultivation, a delicacy of perception, to be obtained by the study of art, which can not be acquired elsewhere. Following the changes of style and technique through the history of ancient art, the student feels the moral conditions which were expressed by those changes in art. Thus he must perceive the bold sincerity which marks the style of a risingschool, and the gradual loss of sincerity which always accompanies the decline. These perceptions of moral causes help strongly in forming noble...
...Rome itself. The school will be open from Oct. 15, to June 1, but members are expected to continue work until August. There will be regular courses of lectures but most of the work will consist of informal talks at museums, visits to the monuments and excursions to ancient sites of Etruria and even as far as Sicily...
...McGregor is modeling it from data received from Mr. Primrose and numerous other students of the ancient Greek architecture. He expects to have it finished in about a month...
...several years the student lives within the associations of the college; the very buildings are living voices of men long dead, the trees whisper of ancient memories, the atmosphere is full of history. And then, as in yonder Theatre he takes his degree, his eye catches the Latin legend above him and in reading those lines the last note of his college life is struck...