Word: bearings
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...first point to bear in mind about Crete and Knossos is primarily a geographical one, since the leadership in the Amorgan era and the great maritime empire in the Mycenaean Age were due entirely to the advantageous position of Crete. Thus when commerce and enterprise were fairly under way, Crete found itself nearer to Cyprus and Troy and also nearer to the Delta of the Nile than any other Greek or Aegean land. Crete, then, could be taken as a middle point between Europe, Africa and Asia, and it was made possible for the diffusion of Egyptian germs...
...reality the sole and genuine embodiment of the political greatness achieved in Mycenaean days, just as Daedalus, the architect of Minos, impersonates the marvellous skill in handicrafts and arts that marked the days when Minos ruled the sea. Both of them are strangely metamorphosed by many whimsical legends which bear more or less on Knossian history. It is important to note, however, that the discoveries just made at Knossos indicate the palace at Knossos to have been of earlier date than the strongholds at Tiryns and Mycenae, as Homer intimates, this might be explained by noting that Crete...
...drama abounds in particularly fine lyrics which bear comparison with some of Swinburne's best work. Taken as a whole, "The Masque" shows great maturity, and, coming so soon after Mr. Moody's powerful poem on "Washington and the Colonial Army," is a great proof of the author's fertility and promise...
...reputation as a statistician and as a writer on social subjects. His lectures, which will continue through this week, will consider not only questions of method and scope in statistics, but also the history of wages as indicated by statistics, especially during the last fifty years. They will thus bear on the great social questions of the welfare of the mass of the community, and will be of interest to all students of economics...
President Eliot, by statistics made from the classes of 1885 and 1886, proved the superiority of the elective system up to that time. This deeper and more comprehensive inquiry it is expected, will bear out more conclusively the result of his work by proving that the elective system is better than all prescribed or group systems...