Word: babylonian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brink of a great struggle, it had made no preparations for war. It was a nation of individuals, divided by a hundred varying interests and cares, peaceful and contented in its material prosperity, and complacent in its traditions of democracy and the freedom of men, a sort of Babylonian boarding house of enlightened beings, living in a happiness which was sooner or later bound to meet the rocks of the vital problems of the world's life. All that is changed today. The growing convictions of the early years of the war have burst forth into actual participation. Where once...
...Worcester, England, and Senior Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, left than the announcement comes that another English scholar is to honor an American university with his presence. This time it is Dr. Stephen Langdon, of Oxford University, the noted Sumerian scholar, who has been appointed curator of the Babylonian section of the University of Pennsylvania museum. Dr. Langdon, whose appointment is for one year, expects to spend much of his time in translating and cataloging the many thousand Sumerian and Babylonian tablets in the museum. His acceptance of the appointment was made possible because the war had depleted...
History of the formation and first efforts to systematize the mathematical and natural sciences in antiquity. Special attention is given to the study of the Babylonian and Egyptian, origins of Greek science. Lectures, reading and a thesis. Knowledge of Greek desirable but not essential...
...lectures that took place during the past week have been Dr. William Hornaday's lectures on "Our Animal Life and Our Duty Toward It," Mr. J. R. Crawford's lectures on the "Modern English Drama," and the second Trowbridge lecture, delivered Saturday night by Professor Clay, on "Assyrian and Babylonian Art." Among the lectures of importance that have been arranged for the coming week are the first two lectures by Professor Von Der Leyen, the German Exchange Professor from the University of Munich, who is to deliver a series on the "Niebelungen Ring." Professor Kuno Francke, head of the Harvard...