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...Forum" contains an excellent article, by Price Collier '82 on "Ethics of Ancient and Modern Athletics." The writer begins with a very brief sketch of the origin and nature of our "modern system of athletic sports," which was introduced about 1812 by the Military College at Sandhurst, England, and compares the old Greek athletics,--their rules, methods and manners--with our own. Then follow several descriptions of ancient athletic contests as they have been recorded by Virgil--the boat races, the foot races, the wrestling contests, the sparring match and the archery contest of Anchises' funeral games. With these pictures...
This house is finished and you all are welcome to its halls. Of its origin and history you have known something, and now will you listen to a few facts about it, and to a few thoughts concerning it, which have come to me during the past summer...
...Virgil, Horace and Livy, and was an active contributor to various periodicals and to the proceedings of many learned societies. His other works include an Analysis of the Latin Subjunctive, privately issued in 1870, and frequent articles in the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, a publication which owes its origin to him. He was a member of the American Philological Association, the American Dialect Society, and the History of Religions Club...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Review of Spurr's "Origin of the Basic Ranges." Professor Davis. Bornstein's "Leitfaden der Wetterkunde." Professor Ward. Rotch Building...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Review of Spurr's "Origin of the Basic Ranges." Professor Davis. Bornstein's "Leitfaden der Wetterkunde." Professor Ward. Rotch Building...