Word: ancients
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...fall of Junior year a concentrator must take a written examination on the Bible, Shakspeare, and two of the following ancient authors: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Horace, and Virgil, and near the end of his Senior year one on English literature...
...Glueck's finds indicate that the busy inhabitants of Solomon's port, besides carrying on sea trade, ship-building and fishing, smelted copper and manufactured such copper implements as spearheads, fishhooks, nails. Some of the flues in the ancient smelter are still intact, and the north wind causes a strong draft through them. Dr. Glueck believes the necessity for such a natural draft was the reason this site was chosen for smelting...
...crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part of the continent, spread from there in widening circles...
Candidates for a degree in Philosophy must pass three three-hour examinations: one on Systematic Philosophy, for which the concentrator chooses as his special field either Metaphysics, Ethics, or Logic, and relates it to at least one of the other two; and two on the history of Philosophy, one ancient and one modern...
Departing from the usual exhibits of sculpture, painting, or drawing, the Fogg Museum is displaying nearly two hundred ancient engraved gems, chosen from the collection of the great archeologist, Sir Arthur Evans. These gems are far more than mere engraved seals, they are glimpses into the ancient world, from the bull-ring of Knossos of perhaps 1500 B.C. to the veil of St. Veronica in the fourth century...