Word: rome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change in the former ideas of physical training. Whereas the Greeks had thought the mind and body closely allied, and to work together, the followers of Christianity considered the mind as impeded and clogged by the body, which was supposed...
...memorial to Professor S. F. B. Morse in Rome was unvailed yesterday with appropriate ceremony...
...unveiling of a tablet in honor of the late Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, in the house in which he resided when in Rome, will take place March...
...departments. The best professors are to be chosen in philosophy, theology, the physical sciences, history - in a word, in all the subjects treated at a liberal university. If such professors can not be found or can not be spared in this country, they will be called from Europe - Louvain, Rome or Paris. Under such masters it is hoped students will be impelled to a love of the deeper and higher studies in all branches, and thus the school will be made a great centre of life and intelligence...
...oarsmen have succeeded in rowing in an outrigger from Rome to Paris, the voyage occupying three months...