Word: artful
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Professor Bury first spoke on "The Influence of Greek Art on Roman History." Cato was the first Latin historian whose national feelings inspired him to write in Latin. Sallust and Livy followed his example, although the real change was only in the medium of expression. Tacitus, who succeeded these men in Roman historiography, resembled Sallust, but greatly excelled Livy both in narration and rhetoric, though he constantly sacrificed facts to style. The Christianizing movement, he said in concluding this subject, compressed history into a new framework and gave it an entirely different perspective...
Professor John B. Bury, M.A., Litt. D., LL.D., Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge will deliver the fifth of his course of lectures on the "Greek Historians" in the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of tonight's lecture will be "Polybius and Poseidonius...
Professor J. B. Bury, M.A., Litt, D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, will lecture on "Thucydides" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. This is the third of his course of six lectures on "The Ancient Greek Historians," delivered under the auspices of the Department of Classics through the generosity of Mr. Gardiner M. Lane...
Against Princeton our recent record has been woeful indeed-four consecutive defeats in as many years. Although more successful against our Yale opponents, we are no longer looked upon as leaders in the art of argumentation, in which our pre-eminence had always been attributed to our acknowledged leadership in academic affairs. Certainly Harvard undergraduates are no less scholarly today than in the past; but they have lost sight of the splendid training that participation in an intercollegiate debate affords. Debating at Harvard is in a dangerous rut; its supporters are no longer representative of every side of Harvard activity...
...photograph from Birth's Formenschatz, loaned by the University Library, is now on exhibition in the Periodical Room of the Union. The collection consists of representations of Italian and German art, buildings, statues, and symbolic groups of human figures...