Word: roman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fiction, Plays, and Poems." In the preface are numerous quotations from prominent authors, substantiating Mr. Winsor's views as to the value of fiction in supplementing historical studies of different periods. The different subjects treated are American, English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish and Portuguese, Germanic, Scandinavian, Sclavic, Turkish, Ancient Roman, Roman Imperial, Italian, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Asian, African, Australian History, and, last of all, Crusoe Literature. An extensive index at the end gives the men, place, subjects, events, etc., mentioned in the body of the book. Each subject is chronological, beginning, for instance, in American History, with the Northman...
...Cambridge, which are essentially different from each other. Secondly, granting that Trinity is more like an English university in its curriculum than our other colleges are, what connection has this fact with the necessity of Latin prayers? The English universities have kept a custom which originated in their Roman Catholic days, and are excusable for so doing; an American college, in adopting this custom without the least reason, would merely lay itself open to ridicule for its absurd anglomania. The affectation of talking about the "grandeur and solemnity" of the Latin service is not worthy of the Tablet's good...
...that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This article, however, only proves the necessity of religion; the other proves that of the Roman Catholic religion, and its superiority to others, by giving a long list of famous men, most of whom lived before Luther's time, who were of course Catholics. If we at Harvard were only such avowed Atheists as we are said to be at heart, we might publish a long...
...There are thirty-eight Roman Catholic colleges in this country...
However the triumphal procession would have been affected by the celebration, there are certainly some peculiarities of nature in the vicinity of Neophogen, which would cause the ancient Roman to open his eyes, for the orator proceeds...