Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call the attention of the authorities to the great need of a course covering the general history of the United States, from the end of the Revolution to the present time. It seems strange that among all the history courses given, there is none treating of this very important period in the development of our own country. The average Harvard graduate knows less of United States History than of Ancient or Mediaeval...
Professor Allen gave the third of his lectures on the History of Classical Studies yesterday afternoon. The lecture doalt with the French period of classical studies. This period lasted during the sixteenth century and included the Reformation. Interest in classical studies was steadily growing during all this time as is shown by the great number of classical translations which appeared at the time of the introduction of printing. Among the men most prominently connected with this revival of the classics may be mentioned Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Melancthon and the Aldines...
...during the war (Laughlin Rev. of Rev., Sept. '96). B. History shows that an increased demand for silver for use in coinage has not caused a permanent rise in the price of silver. (1) From '78 to '93 the price of silver has steadily fallen, though, (a) during that period the U. S. took $600,000,000 worth off the market. (b) During the same period India also took $600,000,000 worth (Laughlin, Rev. of Rev., Sept '96; H. W. Farnham, Yale Rev., Sept. '94). (C) The example of France (1803-'73) is irrelevant. (1) Her success in maintaining...
...arguments, richly enforced by plans and photographs upon the screen, were based in large part upon an examination of the remains of the Greek Dionysiac Theatre at Athens, the cradle, as it were, of the drama, where Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were first brought out. In the earliest period there was only a simple, circular area; the spectators sat upon rows of wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century, was due the introduction, upon the edge of this circular area of a wooden hut, or skene. This was the origin of the "stage" building...
Mycenae, the citadel of Agamemnon, and the other strongholds of the Argive Plain, which all belong to the heroic times sung by Homer, had already fallen into ruin in the historical period. The traveller Pausanias visited them in the second century, A. D., and his description might well have been written in the first half of the present century, so exactly does it describe their condition before Schliemann and the Greek Archaelogical Society began their excavations. Today one may pass through the great gateways into the courts and halls of the palaces that were seats of royal residence...