Word: greeks
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Nearly half of the collection consists of the works of classical Greek and Latin authors, mainly in eighteenth century editions of great value. In the Bowie catalogue there were listed 433 books printed before 1500, the work of 160 different printers. This addition more than doubles the former collection of such books, and probably gives the College Library the largest number of these early works of any public library in the country. Next to the classics in numbers come the works of the mediaeval Latin writers. There are also many standard works in French and English, as well as numerous...
...beginning "A nation once so excellent." And this idea of excellence, of which so few of the thousands of his hearers had any true conception before they listened to his talk, was the keynote of most that he had to say to them. The course professed to be about Greek art, and certainly nobody was better qualified to illuminate that subject; but it was wonderful to observe how he showed that such a seemingly dead and gone thing could be a living influence, in so many different ways, upon this work-a-day world. It may seem a prodigious leap...
...were carried on at two sites. The first is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of standing columns. These are commonly considered as belonging to a temple erected at Samaria by Herod the Great. There also was found great quantities of pottery, mostly Greek and Roman...
...Greek...
There have been various accessions to the print collections, and 670 additions to the collection of photographs, including illustrations of Italian architecture and sculpture and works by the English Pre-Raphaelites. To the collection of slides 84 additions have been made, including illustrations of Greek sculpture, the discoveries at Delphi, and mosales in Ravenna. To the Museum library 37 volumes have been added by gift, purchase, and transfer from the University Library...