Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College Conference yesterday evening Professor Goodwin, in a most interesting lecture, gave an account of the apostle Paul's visit to Athens. Athens at the time of Paul's visit retained all her ancient splendor and glory. The city was filled with the most beautiful works of art, and Paul, a native of obscure Tarsus, must have felt, as he looked about its streets, much as an obscure Yankee from a New England village would feel if he were set down before the art treasures of Florence, Rome and Venice...
...sixty feet high in the centre of the Acropolis, visible for miles around, and the first object sighted by Athenian sailors on their return home. Then, inside the Parthe non was Phidias' famous statue of Athena made of ivory inlaid with gold. Close by, in the Erectheum, was the ancient wooden image of Athena, said to have fallen from heaven, and the sacred olive tree, planted by Athena herself. Throughout the city itself were the temples, altars and idols without number. Yet all this magnificence had no effect on Paul save to stir his spirit, while the obscure, modest altar...
Outing's table of contents for April reveals a wide range of topics, from "Eskimo Whaling" to "The Athletics of Ancient Greece." The latter article is the one, perhaps, which would most interest college men. It is a concise compilation of all the information we have of the condition of athletics in ancient Greece, of the various favorite sports of the Greeks, of the records which were made. The whole article-and it is not a long one-is written in an easy, conversational style and numerous illustrations add to the interest of the narrative...
...Brazen Android" is the curious title of a story in two parts by the late William Douglas O'Connor, which has the place of honor in the Atlantic for April. It is a story of old London, and its ancient life is brought vividly before us by the ready imagination of the author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion...
...history of the art from the lion gates at Mycenae and the archaic reliefs and statues recently found in Athens and elsewhere down to the times of Scopas and Praxiteles and their pupils. With most of the photographs references are given to the pages of Reber's History of Ancient Art, Perry's Greek and Roman Sculpture, and Murray's History of Greek sculpture where the subjects are described. The room is open to members of the university at any time except Wednesday and Friday afternoons. On Monday and Thursday afternoons this and the other room of the department (Sever...