Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...George Parker Winship '93 will give a lecture under the auspices of the Anthropological Society this evening, at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, on "Cortes, and the Conquest of Mexico." The lecture will be open to members of the University. Mr. Winship is the present librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, and has made a special study of the discovery of the South West...
...Thomas' "Tristram." In both we find the device of dreams employed, but in "Horn and Rimenhild," no marvels appear, and the story is strictly in accordance with what actually happened in Ireland at that time. This story became literature in Anglo Saxon, in metrical version, certainly before the Norman conquest, and is chiefly marked by simplicity of language and Germanic or Norse tone. In conclusion he brought forth the four most probable origins of the story and the fact that few illustrate better the popular transition of the times...
...English Department six new courses are offered. Professor Kittredge will give a half course on the sources and history of the English vocabulary. Dr. Schofield will give two half courses on the literary history of England from the Norman conquest to Chaucer, and from...
...conqueror in life's battle is seemingly to attain supreme success. And there is a strange sound in the word of Paul, be ye "more than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over Lee, but the great-hearted sympathy for his fee which he showed afterward; there...
...year 1901-'02. The following subjects for theses are proposed by the committee: The Idea of Beauty, as developed in Plato's writings and else-where in Greek Literature; A Comparison between the Tragedies of Seneca and their Greek Originals; The Constitution of Athens, from Solon to the Macedonian Conquest; Writing in the Mycenaean...