Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Palatine Hill became the central quarter of Rome by a mere accident, the birth in it of the Emperor Augustus. Additions were made to the great palace of the Caesars, but the portion built by Augustus is the only one that remains unchanged, just as it was built...
...English readers, from the pen of the scholarly anther of "Socrates" (1879) and "A Day in Athens with Socrates" (1883), both of which works have had a large sale, and have received very favorable notice from the critics and classical scholars both of this country and of Great Britain. These scholars have especially commended the power displayed in bringing Plato's meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author, who is now known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The want of a course of mechanical drawing is greatly felt at present. The course formerly given in the Lawrence Scientific School was withdrawn from the elective list last year and in its place more attention is paid to the drawing in engineering 5, mathematics 5, formerly 7 and mechanics 1. Therefore anybody who wants to take mechanical drawing can only do so by attending one of the above named courses. As these courses are rather difficult and are not strictly mechanical drawing the student is at a loss what to do. It is not practice...
...just published a little volume containing a compilation of the United States Laws relating to American Shipping. It is primarily for the use of the students in Political Economy 3, but the convenient form in which these laws have been gathered together and arranged will make the book of great value to all who are interested in subjects connected with political science. The labor of searching for many hours, through the innumerable pages that make up the Statutes at Large, for any particular law is, by means of Prof. Laughlin's work, very much reduced. The remarks that follow each...
...things in the new "Index" which appeared Thursday is the increased number of Harvard clubs registered. In few ways can the influence of the university be better extended, or respect and enthusiasm for Harvard be more effectually spread abroad than this banding together of old alumni all over our great country. To whom the happy idea of instituting these clubs belongs we do not know, but now that they do exist, nothing seems more natural than that these old Harvard boys, with the same memories and associations should come together. And yet, if we are not mistaken, Harvard...