Word: apollos
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...citizens of Greenville, South Carolina, think that the new statue of Apollo Belvedere recently added to their museum is not quite the right thing. Not that reasons of art have led to this verdict; on the contrary, disapproval is based on moral grounds, for the single drapery hanging from the god's carven shoulder is looked upon as far too scanty a covering, and measures are to be taken to clothe the statue more completely...
Some of the works that "A. E." has published are the following: "Homeward", "Songs By the Way", "The Earth Breath", "Literary Ideals in Ireland", "The Nuts of Knowledge", "The Mask of Apollo", "Deirdre", "By Still Waters", "The Hero in Man", "The Renewal of Youth", and "Gods...
...judgment of the Great Middle West that Harvard has degenerated solely into an institution of learning. The crowning blow, however, has been delivered by the Yale News. The passing of the Greek Department at Harvard brushes away our last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical Library, carries on the torch of culture. And I write with more feeling because not only the truth about Harvard has been exposed, but also about myself. For the five courses...
...acquire a complete understanding of the history of music, one must know its earliest phases, the hollow wooden drum as well as the mighty organ, the tortoise-shell lyre of Apollo as well as the Banjo-uke. And today Professor Hill will speak on "Early Instrumental Music" in Music 3 at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
...believe them the work of Phidias. If not his, who else could have equaled his genius? seems to be the usual conclusive argument. It is generally granted that Phidias had no equal in his time, that many of the pieces in question are of merit equal to the Apollo Belvidere, the Laocoon, the Torso of the Belvidere...