Word: extant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carved panels worthy a careful inspection. The columns are of marble from Kilkenny. The reredos is said to be one of the finest church decorations in Europe. Here, also, there are more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small and of no special interest in itself, but in it stands the chair of Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when...
...oldest authentic version of the Septuagint and the first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov red by Cardinal Mai, under a version of St. Augustine's "Commentary on the Psalms," is considered the oldest Latin manuscript extant. The large "Hebrew Bible," in folio, from the library of the duke of Urbino, is interesting from its historical associations, the Jews of Venice having offered for it its weight in gold...
...valuable memento, presented by Dr. Le Baron Russell, is the photograph of Carlyle, presented by him to Emerson. Froude says of it : "There is no likeness of him extant which is so characteristic...
...among Greeks, and resulted in a sort of sing-song tone. In the choruses the liberty of an octave was allowed, and where there was a dialogue, both actors and chorus sang. In this last case the chorus is termed commatic. The tones were regulated by certain nomes not extant which were probably stiff and inharmonious. We have given up all attempt to reproduce Greek music, but if the actors could have trusted themselves to sing, or at least to intone, the analogy of the Greek stage would have been more strictly followed. As it was, the actors said their...
...result of an utter disregard of society lines in the elections for class officers. There is no fear now, as there was when '81 was the Freshman class, that Class Day will cease to be a College institution; that danger has passed away; but there is, unhappily, still extant a feeling that every one of the several sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution" of the officers. The aim of a class should be to secure the most able men for each position, irrespective...