Word: rome
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...Mary Coes, who died last summer, as dean of the college. Miss Boody is a native of Brookline and received the A.B. degree from Radcliffe in 1899, and the A.M. degree from Columbia in 1912. She has studied for one winter in the American School for Classical Studies in Rome, and for one summer in the University of Cambridge, England. She taught for nine years in the Cambridge School for Girls, Cambridge (formerly the Gilman School), for two years in Miss Madeira's Private School, Washington, and has been for two years head of The Charlton School, New York...
Professor von Dobschuts writes on "Die Harvard-Zurufe;" and it is safe to say that our cheer has never before been so learnedly treated. He compares it with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint...
...Academy occupies a commanding and inspiring site on the summit of the Janiculum. Below it lies the city of Rome; on the distant horizon are the Appennines and in the middle distance rise the Alban and Sabine hills...
...school is not directly in charge of excavations, since these are now managed entirely by the Italian government, but there is ample field for investigation of the remains already discovered. A year in Rome is not only of great value to the investigator of some technical subject who can deal directly with material inaccessible to him here, but also opens up new vistas to the general student of ancient history, or literature, or art. He has all the concrete originals before him: Rome and Pompeii are near at hand; and the recent striking excavations at Cyrene in Tripoli...
Professor Rand is on the lookout for promising candidates, and he will be only too glad to talk to anyone who is interested in research work at the American School in Rome...