Word: gibbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of the anthropoid ape and monkey will be shown in the Lecture room of the Geographical Institute this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Large parts of the films "Chag" and "Rango" will be shown through the courtesy of the University Film Foundation. The best material on the gibbon and orang-utang available up to the present will supplement the talk on subjects of anthropological interest by E. A. Hooin, professor of Anthropology. Although the pictures are primarily for students of Anthropology A, the tax is open to all members of the University who are interested in picture of wild...
...Gibbon collected an amazing fund of knowledge, which took him years to massage into historical writing...
...Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...
...Gibbon and other Historians." Professor Greenough, Sever...
...What elements of Byronic philosophy, style or autobiography are revealed by Byron's treatment of the following subjects? (Answer with regard to ten of the thirteen subjects): (a) Gibbon, (b) Azo, (c) pedigress, (d) England, (e) any sort of bird, (f) digestion, (g) Clarens, (h) Juan's mother, (i) Cavalier servant, (j) "The castled crag of Drachenfels" (k) Medora, (l) Laura, (m) In medias...