Word: fragmentism
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...verse in the fifth number of the Advocate is better than the prose. "To Pan," though a well worn theme, is pretty and melodious. The "Saga of Lake" is an exceedingly clever fragment which ought to have been signed. The "Secret of Love" deserves commendation, particularly for its form...
...unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with the necessary changes in favor of monotheism, into their own psalm-book. The stereopticon views presented temples, sacrificial laws, and psalms, the Babylonian in the cuneiform character and the Hebrew in the Hebrew character. Specially noteworthy was the fragment of a Babylonian alliterative hymn, divided into paragraphs of five lines each. all the lines in a given paragraph beginning with the same sign or syllable. The hymn was in praise of a restorer of the great temple at Babylon...
...money, tithes and taxes, and offerings to the gods. The great Sippar temple seems to have carried on a large system of lending. One of the tablets exhibited still has the finger prints of the writer. One was a list of families, perhaps slave families. One beautifully written large fragment was a list of the names of men, it may be tax payers...
...excavation on the Acropolis. It is in the form of a beautifully preserved head of Iris belonging to the frieze of the Parthenon, which exactly fits and completes a portion of slab at the British Museum. In recognition of his work the Greek authorities have presented the original fragment and a cast of the whole slab to the American school. The American excavations at Ikarie and Starnata have also yielded good results, and the government has given permission to dig at three other important places, but lack of funds prevents our school from taking the lead of all the institutes...
...means of a large map, Mr. Winsor examined the features of Plymouth Harbor and incidentally the adventures of the people of the Mayflower on that stormy Friday night when they first landed on American soil, He then described the scenes attending the removal of a fragment of the original rock on the shore to its present position and told the story of the feat of General Winslow and his horse Beausejour in swimming the channel at the entrance to the harbor. General Winslow had made a wager with three of his companions that he would give them an hour...