Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Pointing out how strong was the influence of the scholar in Italy during the revival of learning, Dr. Sandys went on to show how natural it was that virtue, which had meant manliness in the Roman Age and goodness in the Middle Ages, in this period came to mean mainly a knowledge of Latin. The theory of education in the Middle Ages was unfolded for us by the treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice...
...Petrarch, he has discovered or assisted in the discovery of the manuscripts of 15 Latin authors, including Cicero, Tacitus, Plautus and Lucretius. All the discoveries of this century, however, were but a small percentage of the amount of classical literature handed down through the Middle Ages. During the same period Cyriacus of Ancona was engaged in the work of exploring the ancient monuments and transcribing their Latin inscriptions. Fra Giacondo, while similarly occupied made drawings of many of the monuments. Amerigo Vespucci and Columbus were the discoverers of the latter part of this age, and the inspiration of Columbus...
...them. The Stadium at the time it was built seemed to me to be a premium on the commercial in athletics and still seem so. However, you have got it now and also its debt. My suggestion about the $70,000 debt is to spread it over a longer period, say about ten years, making payments of $7,000 each year...
...collection of tourmalines, reported to be the largest collection in the world, including rough crystals and cut stones from San Diego county, California, is now on exhibition in the gallery of the Mineralogical Museum. In the same exhibit, which has been loaned to the Museum for an indefinite period by the Himalaya Mining Company, are some tourquoises from San Bernardino county and some chrysoprases from Julare county...
There has been placed on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum a collection of over 200 seventeenth century portrait engravings. The prints show the development during this period and the character of the work of its masters, including, from the Low Countries, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vorsterman, and Paul Pontius; and from the French school, Jean Morin, Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, and Drevet...