Word: rome
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome will offer for the year 1896-97 three Fellowships, as follows...
...developed from the architecture of the early Christian Church. It was the Roman "basilica" which, in all probability, furnished the first model. Professor Moore then traced the growth of church architecture through the early Roman forms, as shown by the churches of St. Paul and St. Lorenzo at Rome, down to the Byzantine form, as shown in the church of St. Sophia, at Constantinople. The main characteristics of each type were shown by the slides and explained by the lecturer...
...precious metals had been carried on. Gold had already begun to lose its character as treasure, and take on its character as money. Gold to the value of L40,000,000 sterling was carried by Alexander into Macedonia, and from Macedonia it was carried by Paullus to Rome. Suddenly, violently, the whole mass accumulated unpper non-economic principles came under the control of economic law. The effect upon prices was enormous. It was characteristic of the Roman People that this effect was turned to evil...
...force of arms not only had Rome acquired possession of nearly all the mines throughout the world, but a large proportion of the gold and silver produced during the past centuries. Mr. Jacob estimates the stock of money in the empire on the Accession of Augustus at L385,000,000 sterling. The Romans, however, were unskilled in mining. They adopted a system of "farming" the mines which greatly reduced their productiveness, as only the best ores were extracted and the works were of a temporary nature. The mines were worked by slaves and convicts. Suddenly the Barbarians appeared...
...Testaments, exemplifying the ideal of simple trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision of God and the possiblity of redemption. Today the things that keep us most from practical faith in God are engrossing worldly occupations...