Word: classics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a large and varied collection of lexicons in the library, many inscriptions and not a few semitic works. In addition to these, of course, are all the classic authors...
...submitted by Dr. Charles Waldstein Ph. D., Litt. D., L. H. D., permanent director, and Professor S. Stanhope Orris, Ph. D., L. H. D., annual director, and gives as encouraging an outlook as could be expected. The object of the school is to furnish an opportunity to study Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance, to graduates of American colleges and to other qualified students; to prosecute and to aid original research in these subjects; and to cooperate with the Archaeological Institute of America, so far as it may be able, in conducting the exploration and excavation...
...coming years of the '94 class crew; not handed over to the graduate treasurer. But this view of the question is aside; the main thing is, that unless the freshmen come up right speedily with generous subscriptions, their eight will do all their racing this year on the classic Charles...
...Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency, and above all a rational method found in no other people. Religion was to them what philosophy was to the Greeks. This fact cannot fail to strike a scholar of both the Old Testament and the classic poets...
...vocal scales have been modified by the conditions of independent instrumental performance and by mechanical considerations of instrumental construction and use we have means of explaining most of the various varieties of scale at present known. The scale of seven steps, tones and semitones, to the octave, known since classic times as the Diatonic, has been the basis of nearly all European music...