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PROSPECT UNION.- Will all those who took subscription books for the Prospect Union building fund please report to me at their earliest convenience...
PROSPECT UNION.- Will all those who took subscription books for the Prospect Union building fund please report to me at their earliest convenience...
PROSPECT UNION.- Will all those who took subscription books for the Prospect Union building fund please report to me at their earliest convenience...
...latter branch were the mound builders of Ohio. The people of the northwest give indications of Asiatic admixture, and those of the southern migration are somewhat like the inhabitants of the south Pacific islands. These facts give some strength to the theories of the origin of the earliest tribes. On the eastern coast on the other hand, in the islands of the Caribbean Sea there are indications that the inhabitants came originally across the Atlantic from Northern Africa...
Then again, as a representative form of amusement in which the Romans took great delight, and which was associated with their great religious festivals, the play is worth attention. A play was originally a rite, a fact which accounts for the extremely conventional character and frequent unreality of the earliest Greek drama. Our modern dramatic realism is a thing of very late development and, though a Roman play was in one sense far from being religious, it retained many traces of its ancient origin. The religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement...