Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual report of President Eliot has just been received, and cover a period from Oct. 1, 1886, to Sept. 30, 1886, with the reports of the several departments of the college...
...mode of conferring the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Literature. The applicant for said dedrees must be a Bachelor of Arts from some approved college or university, and must pursue a special course of study in his department for two years, one year of which period shall be in Princeton, or a course of three years with residence outside of Princeton. The course in either case shall be under the supervision of the faculty. At his application, the candidate will be subjected to a preliminary examination, and at the conclusion of his course, a rigid examination will...
Assyrian art is generally divided into two period; of the earlier one which extends about down to the 8th century before Christ, we have no actual remains, as the temples were restored, and often entirely rebuilt by the later kings. It was customary to restore the decaying buildings of earlier times and we learn from numerous inscriptions that the kings wished all sorts of imprecations on the heads of those of their successors who should not maintain the temples and palaces they built. For knowledge of this earlier period we must depend on inscriptions. The later period which extends down...
...only in this latter period that the kings began to erect gorgeous palaces, as all their attention was at first bestowed upon building temples worthy of their great gods...
There is a period in which Assyrian art excelled, when the human form was carefully and vigorously drawn, but there followed a period of decadence in which details of attire and scenic surroundings were more aimed after. Even here, however, we must admire the admirable execution of detail...