Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bowdoin Prize Competition, open to all resident students of the University, for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin was announced recently by Professor G. H. Maynadier '89 and Professor C. R. Post '04. The prizes are made up from the income of the request of Governor James Bowdoin who graduated from the University in 1745 and increased by G. S. Bowdoin. It offers nine prizes, five of these being for undergraduates who do not hold an academic degree or have not fulfilled the requirements therefor, and also for other candidates of A. B. or S. B. in the University...
Undergraduates who wish to write a dissertation in Greek may band in a translation of a part of Acton's "History of Freedom" into Attic Greek and for those writing in Latin a translation into that language of a portion of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is required. A prize of $50 for the best of each of these translations will be awarded. Holders of degrees must write an original essay in either Latin or Greek on any subject chosen by the competitor. The best essay will receive...
...General Characteristics of Greek Sculpture During the Great Age," Professor Chase, Fogg Museum...
...gentleman has been in the act of throwing the plate, or discus, for some centuries since he was carved out of Attic marble by Myron, the Greek sculptor, and he is known to the world as Diskobolos, or discus thrower. Professor Chase will speak on the Diskobolos and other works of Myron at 12 o'clock today in the Fogg Museum...
...Vagabond's statue, the merchandise, if you must, of his business--namely, the Harvard curriculum. The writer of the clipping raised, figuratively speaking, his hands in well simulated horror at the thought that whereas the University "has a gigantic new Business School" it offers only 5 courses in Greek, while Princeton and Yale take their places on the uppermost rungs of the intellectual ladder giving 12 and 9 courses in Greek respectively. Indeed if this were true, that "even Williams," as the writer puts it, should have more courses in Greek than Harvard, then might the eager Cambridge drinker...