Word: rome
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alexander had lived twenty or thirty years longer, said President Andrews, history probably would have been radically different in three respects. Greece would have been firmly united into one Hellenic nation, the danger of Persian domination would have been changed to the assured lordship of Greece over Asia, and Rome would not have conquered Greece, but Greece ruled Rome...
...grand plans of Alexander been consummated and Greece become the dominant power in the East and West, results so glorious might have followed as to dazzle the imagination. Greek civilization, sturdier that that of Rome, by escaping the collapse under the barbarian hordes, would have saved the world the Dark Ages. But with the death of Alexander came chaos...
...Louis Fagan, formerly of the British Museum, gave the second Cantabrigia lecture in Sanders Theatre last evening. Mr. Fagan's subject was "Some Treasures of the British Museum." He confined himself to some of the antiquities from Greece and Rome that the museum possesses, showing by means of a stereopticon. excellent views of the objects of which he spoke. Besides statuary and sculptures, Mr. Fagan commented on coins, mosaics and bronzes...
...Hasty Pudding Club and the Phi Beta Kappa. He gained the degrees of A. M. and M. D. in 1837 Immediately after this he began the practice of medicine in Boston. In 1841 he went abroad to pursue his studies and was made a member of medical societies in Rome and Athens. Upon his return in 1843 he was appointed curator of the Lowell Institute, which position he held until April of this year...
...institute founded the School of Classical Studies in Rome, whose first director was Professor Hale, Harvard 1870, now senior professor of Latin in the University of Chicago. The director in 1897-98 will be Professor C. L. Smith, and with him will be associated, as professor of archaeology, Richard Norton, Harvard 1892, now of Bryn Mawr...