Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...compete in the final contest for the Boylston Prizes in elocution will be held in Sanders Theatre at 9 o'clock on Friday morning, May 5, or Saturday morning, May 6. The competition is open of Seniors and Juniors in the College. The speeches most be selections from English, Greek or Latin authors, and must, be approved by Dean Briggs, the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, on or before Thursday, April 27. Dean Briggs will soon announce an hour on that day, when he may be consulted concerning the selection of speeches by all those who have been previously...
...Sandys graphically described the homes of the Italian humanists--the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience in an imaginary journey through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones...
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