Word: rome
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...supervision of the director of the school, the study of Classical Archaeology in Greek lands for a period of ten months, from Oct. 1, 1895; but, with his consent, they may be in residence for two months of this time at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, under the charge of the director of that school...
...ensuing year are as follows: John Henry Wright, professor of Greek; John Hayes Gardiner, instructor in English; J. B. Fletcher, instructor in English; Irving Babbitt, instructor in French; Robert Ward, assistant in Meteorology; Charles Burton Gulick, instructor in Greek; George W. Botsford, instructor in the History of Greece and Rome; and James Edwin Lough, assistant in Psychology. Professor Barrett Wendell, who returns from his sabbatical tour, will resume his courses in English...
...object of the school is to give an opportunity for advanced study in the fields of literature, philology, archaeology and art. Rome gives unusual advantages for these studies in its monuments, its great collections of manuscripts and its libraries...
...proposed studies are: (1) The archaeology of ancient Italy (Italic, Etruscin, Roman) and of the early Christian, Mediaeval and Renaissance periods; (2) inscriptions in Latin and the dialects; (3) Latin palaeography, ancient and mediaeval; (4) Latin literature, as bearing upon ancient life, and (5) of the antiquities of Rome itself. The Classical School will be located with the School of Architecture in the formerly celebrated Villa Ludovisi, an old palace on the Pincian Hill. The quiet and picturesque surroundings make the situation a perfect one for the purpose and commanding a beautiful view over the city, it constitutes...
...Queen Victoria; it disputed with the Eiffel Tower the palm for interest and success at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889; it traversed Europe, crossed the Alps and the Pyrenees, and camped beneath the walls of the Alhambra and within the vast interior of the Colosseum at Rome. Princes, potentates and powers have all been guests at its tables and have learned the lessons of the conquest of the New World from conqueror and conquered...