Word: romans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature to mere business, for the modern languages have literatures as well as the ancient. There exists a French literature which comprises books, poetry, devotion, philosophy, science, history, politics-a literature not less but more extensive and various than Greek and Roman literatures themselves. This literature indisputably excites the same sort of emotions and exerts the same influence as classical literature. It elevates the mind, stimulates the imagination and forms the taste; in short, there is absolutely no good effect produced by the classical literature which is not also in some degree...
...award of the Bowdoin prizes for 1887.8 has been posted as follows: Group I. To Edison Leone Whitney, A. B., 1885, a prize of $100 for a dissertation on "The Roman Senate under the Empire;" Group II. No a ward has yet been made in this group. Group III, A. To Francis Demetrius Kalopothakes, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation on "The Roman Senate under the Empire." B. To John Henry William Walden, senior, a prize of $50 for a translation into Latin prose. Group IV. To Maxime Bocher, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation...
...historical sciences, or "diegetica," as they were called in the pedantic scheme of Judge Woodward, the framer of the act. The method of supplying the faculty was unique. A Scotch Presbyterian minister, John Monteith, was given six professors, in addition to the presidency; while Gabriel Richard, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Territory, took the six remaining chairs. In 1821 this preliminary organization was repealed and a board of twenty-one trustees, including the Scotch parson and a Catholic bishop, was appointed by the Territorial legislature with full powers to organize the University. But the Territory had no ready money...
...Vardill, A. M., Socius," appointed professor of natural laws. In 1775 he was made professor of history and languages. Undoubtedly both appointments represented the revival of the old English connection between law, history and classics. As the Jus Naturalis, then taught in European universities, was but the continuity of Roman ideas of philosophical jurisprudence, so history was regarded. primarily, as the history of Greece and Rome, and as a mere supplement to classical culture...
...Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description of the globe in respect of all matters: Rise, extent and fall of ancient empires; chronology as low as the fall of the Roman Empire; present state of the world; origin of the present States and Kingdoms-their extent, power, commerce, religions and customs; modern chronology." This was history with an ancient and geographical basis, but with a modern political outlook. It was a highly creditable course-the best that the writer has found...