Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will go as Professor of Greek at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and Dr. Frank B. Tarbell, who will accompany him, is the permanent director for five years. Professor White's main duty will be the interpretation of such passages in the writers of ancient Greece as refer to the topography and monuments of Athens, and Dr. Tarbell will have general charge of the school, and will lecture on epigraphy and architecture. The other member of the faculty, Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Kings College, Cambridge, England, will continue his lectures on Greek Sculpture...
...world began to undergo a change. Mr. Edward G. Mason contributes a paper on "Early Visitors to Chicago" in which he gives a description of the earliest visitor to Chicago - beginning with La Salle in 1671 - and what was their reported condition of the country. "The Annals of an Ancient Parish" by Rev. W. H. Savage gives a good account, - with illustrations of familiar places in this neighborhood - of the early churches in Watertown and vicinity...
Harvard and Yale have been antagonists for nearly 200 years. For the last 30 years the struggle between these ancient universities has been purely upon the athletic field. Prior to that it was mainly upon theological issues, and conducted by the faculties...
Prof. W. M. Nevin, professor of Ancient Languages in Franklin and Marshall, and the oldest college instructor in active service in the U. S., died on Thursday, aged...
Oberlin proposes to reproduce the Olympic games at her field day. Many ancient sports will be introduced, laurel wreaths given to the victors, and robed heralds will announce the events...