Word: processes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interesting to trace the various evidences of expurgation as we have them in the "Iliad," to show the spirit of the Homeric Age. All indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...
...Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum by Professor W. M. Davis '69, whose subject will be "Why the Earth is Believed to be Millions of Years Old." The lecture will be in part explanatory of certain exhibits, included in the New Geological Exhibition Room, now in process of arrangement, and will attempt to make clear why the geological history of the earth is divided into various ages and periods, each of which is of untold duration. Photographic projections will present illustrations of various rock structures, from which the processes and conditions of past ages may be reasonably inferred...
...given $75,000 some time ago by Andrew Carnegie for a library, on condition of raising an endowment fund for the same amount, has succeeded by subscriptions and proceeds from plays in swelling the sum to a little over that required. Another fund of $20,000 is in process of raising for the furnishings of the library, of which $5000 has already been raised by subscriptions. It is intended to give an operetta this year as formerly in conjunction with graduates of Radcliffe and Harvard to aid in making up the amount. Last year the operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance...
...number of specimens of U. S. government standard teas, together with illustrations of the plant and descriptions of the process of tea-making, have recently been acquired by the Botanical Museum. An interesting collection of pre-historic grains, with several specimens of fruits and bread, which were completely charred in the conflagrations by which the lake dwellings of the stone and bronze ages were destroyed, are also on exhibition. Seventy illustrations of a few wild flowers from the eastern United States, painted by Mrs. C. D. Murdoch, and specimens of "Silver Sword" collected from the brink of the volcano Holeakala...
Professor G. H. Palmer and Professor E. C. Moore are lecturing one day a week each at Yale University during the first half-year. Professor Palmer is lecturing on philosophy, the department being in process of re-organization, owing to the loss of Professor Ladd, who left Yale to take a professorship at Western Reserve University. Professor Moore is giving one of the courses formerly given by the late Professor Stevens...