Word: rome
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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HANOVER, N. H., Oct. 27.- Henry C. Burton, A. B., Ph. D., a graduate of Harvard in the class of '90, has been appointed Latin instructor at Dartmouth, to take the place of Professor Moore, who goes to Rome for a year's study...
...article is on "Fay House of Radcliffe College" by Arthur Gilman. "A Group of Presidents," by Edward Everett Hale '39, accompanies the group portrait of Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Walker and C. C. Felton, five former presidents of Harvard. The American School of Classical Studies in Rome is described at length by W. G. Hale '70. The number concludes with the regular departments-The University, Athletics, The Graduates, etc. The frontispiece is a photograph of Fay House. The other illustrations are Francis Channing Barlow, William Henry Furness and Five Harvard Presidents...
...plaster cast of the "Pieta," by Michael Angelo, the original of which is in St. Peter's at Rome, has also been received recently...
...Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...
...holders of these Fellowships will be enrolled as regular members of the School, and will be required to pursue their studies, under the supervision of the Directors of the School, for the full school year of ten months, beginning October 15, 1896. They will reside ordinarily in Rome; but a portion of the year may be spent with the consent and under the advice of the Directors, in investigations elsewhere in Italy, or in travel and study in Greece under the supervision of the Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In addition to his general studies...