Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first course, given on Monday and Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock, beginning Monday, October 13, will be eight lectures on Armenia by Frederick Cornwallis Conybearse, M. A., Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. 1. Physiography and Climate of America as Determining Factors of History. 2. Assyrian Epoch, Vannic Civilization. 3. The Khaldis Moses of Kleoren's Traditions. 4. Advent of Armenians and the Persian Conquest. 5. Iranic Influence on Language, Religion, and Institutions of Armenia. 6. Greek Influence. Christianity. 7. Armenia as an Appanage of Parthia. Sassanid Epoch and Mohammedan Conquest. 8. Armenian Diaspora in Cilicia, Persia, Poland. Political...
...Genesis; if it had asserted that Mr. Phillip Oppenheim could not have written all the novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths of such tender age are to regard the most characteristic institution...
...when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate? In which epoch was there the greater tendency toward exercise in the open? Personally I do not know, but I do know that these, among other things, are points to consider...
Previous wars ended and left little trace upon the landscape of the Somme Valley. This vaster conflict, fought with a million-fold more destructive weapons, will not rely upon historians for its chronicle; like a geologic epoch, it is blasting into the countryside the ineffaceable record of its vehemence and horror...
...example. It is not too much to say, however, that where such manifestations as these are discovered in the spontaneous life of an institution, there you may know one more American college is of a truth "finding the range," and preparing to forge its way forward into a new epoch of public usefulness. Boston Transcript...