Word: rome
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...political situation at Rome in the year of Cicero's consulship...
...only possible expression of his life that he should urge endless war against the forces of evil. Civilization was a vast Roman empire, making one great slave-power of the earth. Suicide was the only escape for fettered and despairing humanity. If a man dared to act there was Rome to punish him. Had Jesus been a fanatic, he might have gathered followers and overthrown the political and religious despotism, for with fanatics all things are possible...
...officers elected are as follows: R. McN. Barker '98, of Syracuse, president; B. C. Mead '96, of Auburn, vice-president; C. C. Mann '99, of Utica, secretary and treasurer. The above officer, with L. W. Mott '96, of Oswego, and W. S. Morgan Gr., of Rome, constitute the executive committee...
There has recently been instituted at Rome an American School with quarters on the Pincian Hill. The plan was originated at a meeting of archaeologists in Philadelphia last winter, and a committee consisting of Professors W. G. Hall, of the University of Chicago; Winton Warren, of Johns Hopkins University and A. L. Frothinghan, of Princeton, was appointed to consider the feasibility of establishing such a school at Rome. Representatives of nearly fifty institutions are on the committee, of which a strong section is already established in Rome itself. The school will be open from Oct. 15, to June...
...quoting the clause in Judge Dudley's will prescribing the lecture to be "For the detecting, and convicting, and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places, and finally that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that man of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament...