Word: byzantium
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...animal the sensuous visage of another, have the children of dream gone unchallenged by many. Is it that after the lucid history of centuries the reason, the merit, the meaning, the value of art is still doubtful? Remembering Greece, and Athens that should make Rome vital, and Byzantium that should trumpet Italy out of stupid darkness, and the Latin Renaissance that should succour Europe even to the present moment, can any pen deny those who would look upon football as a momentary spectacle and upon beauty as an eternal grace...
...Morgan's valuable collection of embellished manuscripts, which represent the art of many countries from the ninth to the 16th centuries. Of particular interest are two English volumes, the Bestiary of 1187 and the Windmill Psalter of a century later. A Greek Gospel represents the second Golden Age of Byzantium, while two Armenian folios illustrate the eastward and westward spread of that culture. Scenes in France, Flanders, and Germany are depicted in a Spanish manuscript, which incidentally traces Celtic influences on that peninsula. Italy is represented in the manuscripts with a Martyrology and a Gospel of Mathilda of Tuscany...
...Harvard-Zurufe;" and it is safe to say that our cheer has never before been so learnedly treated. He compares it with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint and investigate the matter. It seems...
...SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE. "The Scandinavians in Russia and Byzantium." Professor L. Wiener. Readings from Hrolfs saga kraka. Russell...