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...civilization and the arts. The Mycenaean Age intimately concerns us, if we wish to do full justice to the traditions of culture handed down to us by our forefathers. This age was an early phase of modern civilization and in all respects was far more advanced than the period of the Greek Middle Ages, 1000-700 B. C. which came immediately after it. The Mycenaeans themselves had a long past to build upon and may therefore be called the Ancients of Antiquity, since like our own more modern Ancients of Greece and Rome, they represent the culmination of a long...
...beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world, but were organized and developed in that very region itself. This culture then and its initial stages, called the "Amorgan period" because this civilization of the Aegaean islands was first distinctly noticed on the small island of Amorgos, is best regarded as a local phase of the common Mediterranean life. Furthermore it is not unimportant to reflect that the stage of culture out of which emerged first the Amorgan and finally...
...Dyer is a graduate both of Harvard and Oxford, and was formerly Assistant Professor of Greek at Harvard. Of recent years he has been studying at the University of Oxford, and has been actively connected with the recent research in primitive Greek Art, especially in that of the Mycenaean Period...
...position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines of the Council of Trent may be purified by this moralization: the Papacy becomes the assertion of the need of unity...
...original essay in either Latin or Greek, of not less than three thousand words. Any subject may be chosen by a competitor, but each man must be the holder of an academic degree and must be a resident student in the Graduate School for one full year, within the period between 1898-1901. Essays already presented for prizes or academic distinctions else-where than in Harvard, are not admissable. The winners of these prizes will be announced on the Commencement programme, this June...