Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of both acts is laid at Machiavelli's villa near Florence, in the year 1500. Machiavelli is an ardent devotee of the art of lying and in the practice of this art grossly slanders his ancestors. The ghost of di Luto, his great grandfather, appears to him at midnight in the garden of his villa and decreses that as a punishment for his irreverence, Machiavelli shall ever afterwards lie, but, upon the intercession of his daughter Lucrezia, di Luto agrees that if by telling a lie he shall ever be able to tell the truth, the curse shall...
...Society; one case to the Cambridge Associated Charities: one case to the St. Vincent de Paul Society; one case to the Morgan Memorial; one case to Mr. Hicks, city missionary; one case to the Jewish Charities Organization; magazines--two cases to the Newspaper Hospital; one case to the Holy Ghost Hospital; one case to the Cambridge Hospital; one case to the T Wharf Reading Room for Sailors...
Under the auspices of the Anthropological Society, Dr. James H. Woods lectured last night in the Fogg Lecture Room on "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India...
...lecture under the auspices of the Anthropological Society will be given at 8 o'clock this evening in the Fogg Lecture Room by Dr. James H. Woods, on "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India." Dr. Woods, who is a member of the department of philosophy, is now editing the "Yoga-Chasya" for the Harvard Oriental Series. He has studied in the Pundit schools in Benares, has practiced the methods of inducing the trances of Yoga, and has travelled extensively with Buddhist scholars in the Himalayas, on the borders of Thibet...
...ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India," Dr. J. H. Woods. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...