Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short study shows us that these monuments are divided into two classes. The first class represents people after death, and is typified by archaic reliefs. In the second class, men are represented in life. Tombstones of this kind may still be found at Athens, preserved through the ruin and devastation of centuries...
...remembered that while in the Graduate School in 1893 he won a Sohier prize essay on the same subject as that of his book now soon to be published. Last October Mr. Corbin went to Baliol College, Oxford, and since then has been studying there certain archaic features of the Elizabethan drama in preparation for the publication of his book, which will have a prefatory note by F. York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that...
...exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...
About one hundred and sixty photographs have been placed on the frames in Sever B, arranged to illustrate the 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...
...announcement made in the CRIMSON several days ago of the requirements for the coming examination in Fine Arts 3 was not entirely correct. The work required consists of the first 295 pages of the Oman, Reber's account of Archaic Art, and Plutarch's Lives of Aristeides, Cimon, Pericles, and Themistocles...