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Side by side with the crying need for a new gymnasium stands the necessity of more improved land for the promotion of our ever-growing intracollegiate athletics. The increasing interest that has been taken of late in that kind of sport is a most healthy manifestation, which deserves, in the...
This indicates the most important phase of the value of Thucydides's historical work, namely, trustworthiness. Although it took a large amount of firm independence, Thucydides departed entirely from historical methods current in his day and emphasized accuracy as the prime necessity of history.
He was the first, and by many thought the best historian to successfully gauge the character of the Greek state. His clear and concise statements of the doctrine of "might makes right," his broad criticism of a narrow policy, and his independence of prejudice and envy have made him one...
Professor Bury is one of the most eminent historical thinkers of the day and is widely known by his works, the "Life of St. Patrick," and his edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." The Regius professorship at Cambridge, founded by Henry the Eighth, is one...
Freshman dinners vary but little from time to time and it is only the exceptional class that makes the most of its first dinner. There is a splendid chance here for something more than the casual speeches by a few chosen men of the class and it is to be...