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Professor Lanciani is lecturing at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Prof. R. Lanciani, of the University of Rome, began a course of ten lectures on "Roman Archaeology" at John Hopkins, on Tuesday, January...
...better opportunity to obtain a more comprehensive knowledge of the great nations of the ancient world than that which Harvard students now enjoy, has rarely been afforded to the students of any college. The lectures by Prof. Lanciani on Roman Archaeology, the present course by Prof. Frothingham on Assyrian Archaeology, and the proposed lectures of Mr. Charles Waldstein on Greek Archaeology, form a connected whole, and cover a field where interesting facts presented in an interesting manner are rarely to be found. These lectures present a vivid future of ancient life, which both classical students and others may readily understand...
Professor Hill called attention, a day or two ago, with reference to these very lectures, to what he termed the "lack of literary curiosity among Harvard men." He had observed, he said, but very little interest from students, in the recent Lanciani lectures - the usual thing in the case of a purely literary subject. It is as much to be deplored as the fact that the English department does not have more scope allowed it, that after all such a comparatively few of the men now in college have this literary curiosity. It is a notorlous fact that a French...
...very fortunate in having in our midst another eminent archaeologist, so shortly after Professor Lanciani's regretted departure. Mr. Charles Waldstein, a young American scientist who has acquired an eminent name in science and letters, is spending a few days in Cambridge and will deliver a lecture in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening. Mr. Waldstein is director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in the University of Cambridge, England, and has lately had the distinguished compliment paid him of being appointed permanent director of the American Archaeological School at Athens...