Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope to view the past in proper perspective. Some monuments of Greek and Roman literature we shall have to depreciate, but others, in compensation, we shall esteem more highly, because more intelligently, than ever before. The discovery in Egypt, for instance, of large fragments of Menander has detracted from the glory that had attached to his name, but it has correspondingly increased the appreciation of Plautus and Terence, who had hitherto been considered less talented imitators. Gilbert Murray's translations and extravagant eulogies of Euripides have provoked such...
...Peacocks"; S. C. Johnson, "Chats on Military Curios"; Rudyard Kipling, "France at War"; Princess Hrebebanovich Lazarovich, "Memoirs"; Stephen Leacock, "Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy"; Walter Lippman, "The Stakes of Diplomacy"; R. C. Long, "Colours of War"; Lucien Lord, "Leaves from the Signal Elm"; C. Maspero, "Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt"; E. L. Masters, "Spoon River Anthology"; W. B. Munro, "A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States"; F. S. Oliver. "Ordeal by Battle"; E. R. and J. Pennell, "Lithography and Lithogarphers"; Ernest Poole, "The Harbor"; Richard Pryce, "David Penstephen"; Annual Register, 1914; Upton Sinclair, editor, "The Cry for Justice...
Today we see the Allies offered 200.000 Abyssinian soldiers, armed by German and Belgian rifles. It is suggested that they be carried by the Japanese navy to Egypt or Mesopotamia to fight for Britain, France and Russia, whose foreign policy in Morocco and Persia has helped to bring this war, in which Germany was tempted to invade Belgium, and Italy to land in Albania! Where under high heaven is there either "national honor, human justice or universal principles of righteousness" in this perfectly Gilbertian complexity of aims, policies and national alignments...
Conditions in Egypt Described...
...Camp 1G., will describe his experiences and the conditions in Egypt at the meeting of the class on Educational Missions in the Library Room this evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. Raymond Calkins '90 will open the discussion on the general topic of the course and Mr. Camp, who has traveled extensively in Egypt and has been engaged in teaching there, will follow with the special subject. All members of the University are welcome...