Word: rome
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Professor Edward Kennard Rand '94 who has just returned from sabbatical leave at Rome has kindly outlined for the CRIMSON the aims and advantages of the American Academy there...
...While in Rome he played an important part in uniting the separate institutions of the Academy of Art and the School of Classical Studies to form the American Academy. The Academy is now under the directorship of Professor J. B. Carter of Princeton, succeeding Mr. Frank Millet, the artist, who perished in the Titanic disaster...
...general survey of our national development in such a way as to make it attractive for a student who is not specializing in History. We are ashamed to admit that many of us leave college with less knowledge of our own history than of that of Greece and Rome. It may be that acquaintance with American History should have been made in preparation for college, but this argument may be applied with equal force to English Composition which is required of all Freshmen. The fact remains that we cannot learn that history after we come to college and must, therefore...
...civilization of the East. Mr. Warner has spent much time in the East and will return next year to China, sent by the Archeological Association of America to look over the field with a view to the establishment of a School of Archaeology and Art similar to those at Rome and Athens. The course that he is to give here in the second half of this year will therefore not be offered in 1914. The exhibit and talk this afternoon should prove valuable for all who are thinking of taking this half-course; and for those who are not, they...
...Forum, wearing a flowing Roman toga, and making the speeches which were the bane of our lives a few years ago; we never imagine that the forum is a present day possibility. But men acquainted with English universities, especially Oxford, realize that the forum does not belong to historical Rome alone; it is today a great force in training university men in thoughtful discussions of important topics of the day. An impressive list is made when the names of the greatest Englishmen of each generation are found to be the names of the men most prominent in their university forums...