Word: roman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...electrotypes of ancient coins, taken from originals in the British museum. They represent historical periods from 700 B. C. to 200 A. D. This is the second important gift of the class to the college, the first, in April last, consisting of 300 photographs of Greek and Roman sculpture, of the development of the Italian school of painting, and of selected architectural pieces of ancient ruins and buildings...
...well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner's (Leipsig) English does...
...begins a series of papers (to be continued throughout the year) entitled "A New Portfolio," and the first number is full of the old time charm, wit, pathos, and other delightful qualities of the genial Autocrat. Articles of literary interest are a thoughtful study of "Childhood in Greek and Roman Literature," by Horace E. Scudder; and a paper by Richard Grant White on "The H Malady in England." Two pictures of New England life-"A Salem Dame School," and "Winter Days," are of interest; and these, with a short story by Frank R. Stockton; poetry of a Christmas character...
...naturally in Italy, who had never forgotten her relationship to ancient Rome, and where the knowledge of Latin literature had never altogether died out, that the revival first took place. It may be said to have been begun early in the twelfth century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe...