Word: canon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Canon Wilberforce, who is to speak in Sanders Theatre on Thursday evening, by invitation of the Plummer professor and the preachers to the University, deserves a large hearing. He is the most distinguished advocate of temperance in the Church of England and a person whom we are fortunate to have among us. The entire floor of the theatre will be reserved for students...
...Canon Basil Wilberforce of Southhampton, England, will lecture on the "Value of Resistance" next Thursday in Sanders...
...universities there was a "rector," many of whose functions are exercised by the president of this university in historical succession. The English universities copied this institution from Paris, where it was an adaptation from the Bolognese model. The degrees given were principally those of Doctor of Laws (Civil Canon). The professors had formed a corporation (collegium) which had the power of examining candidates for the license to teach law, and those who had passed this examination and had instruction for a year, were recommended to the archdeacon of the Bishop of Bologna, who made them Doctor of Laws by delivery...
...next issue of the Philadelphian will contain an article by Canon Farrar which has never yet been in print...
Polycritus made a figure of rather a short square pattern which became the canon used on the coins and vases of his time. Afterwards Lysippe made a lighter canon of more slender proportions. In its turn this figure was used for all ornamental purposes. All these representations of athletes were realistic, and if they had not led to ideal figures, Greek Art could not have approached its highest level. The danger that the artist should be engrossed in the real was subverted by the ideal in the figures of the gods. It was not until the athletic games became ridiculous...