Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary Naval Conference, having assembled at Rome (TIME, Feb. 18) under the auspices of the League of Nations to consider the extension of the principles of the Washington Naval Treaty to out-side Powers, began its deliberations...
Inhabitants of Fiume petitioned Benito in Rome to honor Whitney Warren, famed U. S. architect, and Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's intrepid poet-airman, both of whom advocated "Fiume for the Italians," by placing their statues outside the Government building. As an amende honorable to the late President Wilson, Fiumians suggested naming a street after him. One is also to be named after Mussolini...
...interest in the literature of Rome and Athens differs fundamentally from the enforced interest of an earlier generation. The general abomination of prescribed Latin and Greek produced in part, at least, that revolt against the rigid college course from which emerged the elective system. Under President Eliot the principle was adopted that personal interest should determine the direction of undergraduate study. And the renaissance of Latin and Greek which appears imminent must result from the free play of this principle. There is certainly as much to induce a study of Latin in Cicero's orations, as there is to induce...
...Roman poetic literature reached its culmination in the work of Virgil and Horace. . . . It is remarkable that Rome reached the highest peak of her literary success in a period very similar to the present one." The conditions were rendered unsettled by the "constant, actual or threatening, civil war," besides Rome's foreign troubles. Yet in this period Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace produced the greatest works of Latin literature...
Professor Jean J. Haffner, French architect and winner of the Grand Prux de Rome, whose work is, well-known abroad and in this country, is showing nine water colors of landscapes in the Berkshires, and in France and Italy. By Professor John S. Humphreys '93 are four water colors of Bermudan subjects. Mr. Hermann D. Murphy and Mr. Harold B. Warren are the other artists represented...