Word: emperor
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...Library a Latin address presented by over seventy American scholars to Professor Heinrich Brunn, the archaeologist, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. The address, which was drawn up by Professor Lane, is engrossed and illustrated on parchment in an alphabet of the time of the Emperor Claudius. The subscribers will also send a gold medal, with appropriate devices and inscriptions...
...Peabody gave an interesting talk before the Christian Association last evening on recent discoveries made at Jerusalem by which the probable locality of the site of the Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which stood...
...Emperor William has sent through Prof. Max Muller of Oxford University, a telegram to the Oxford University boat crew, congratulating them upon their defeat of the Cambridge crew, last Saturday...
Professor Morgan addressed the Y. M. C. A. last night on the early Christians as described in the classics. He said: There are but four passages in the really classical works that mention the Christians at all. The first is in a letter of Pliny to the Emperor Trajan. Pliny was the governor of the province of Bethinia and had been much troubled by certain men possessed of a strange and criminal superstition, a belief in a certain Christus who had been crucified by Pontius Pilate. Pliny had executed all men who said that they were Christians...
...Emperor Waltz, J. Strauss...