Word: parthenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greeks, who are always thinking up something important when not engaged in founding restaurants, have decided at last to restore the Parthenon. It's really a wonder they didn't do it earlier, before some of the pieces were lost. But what with the general wear and tear, the growth of grass and American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against...
...Walter Scott found history in a state of patient antiquarianism as constant in its treatment as a frieze of the Parthenon and left it as diverse as an ever-changing pageant," said Mr. George Macaulay Trevelyan in his talk on "The relation of "History and Literature" in the Faculty room of the Union last night. Mr. Trevelyan pointed out that the greatest works in each of the fields of literature and history, are those which have been written with a vital relation to the other field...