Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grecian Main Street. In 160 A.D., Corinth, classic city, throve lustily. Pausanias was its Baedeker. He described a street running from the market place to the theatre. In 396 A.D., Alaric the Goth devastated the city. Ancient Corinth disappeared under tons of debris and earth. Little by little the old town is being unearthed. Theodore Leslie Shear, one of Princeton's archaeologists, has returned to the U. S. after four years of digging there. He announced the discovery of the Pausanias-chronicled street, the theatre with seats...
...Classic Charm of Charles
Perhaps that unique "something" is comparable, in a way, with the classic calm of the near-by Charles River. And now I think I have hit upon it. Harvard somehow seems eternal. You wander through old Harvard Yard in the twilight, and the whispering trees seem to tell you that Harvard will survive forever, waiting in serene expectancy for youth to come and share its treasure of knowledge. You wander across the Oklahoma oval, and the thought crosses your mind that perhaps the next legislature will decide to cut off the university's finances and give the money...
...Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building at No. 40 Wall Street. Their scouts report that "the modernistic trend has not yet reached Rumania." Accordingly they will design the new Super-Capitol Building in oldfangled classic style. Materials and labor for the $100,000,000 project will be Rumanian so far as possible. But U. S. makers of concrete mixers, road pavers and such would do well to approach discreetly Major Oltarsh or Mr. Blumenthal
...Making a classic analogy of the Harvard student's attitude with that of the ancient Greek. Dr. Lowell stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests...