Word: smyrna
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...Department of the Classics has received, through Professer H. W. Smyth '78, over two hundred unique photographs of ancient sites in Asia Minor, taken by Mr. Ernest L. Harris, Consul General at Smyrna, and by him presented to the Department. Among the places represented are Pergamus, Sardes, Magnesia, Miletus, Priene, Hierapolis, Laodices, Philadelphia, Aphrodisias...
...entitled "Smyrnaeorum Resgestae et Antiquitates," gained the rare compliment from one of his most distinguished teachers, Karl Friedrich Hermann of Gottingen, of being mentioned in his work on Greek Antiquities, in which these words still stand in the fifth edition: "Welche fleissige Arbeit alle sonstige Nachweisungen uber diese Stadt (Smyrna) unnothig macht." Another distinguished professor at Gottingen, Schneidenin, in the preface to an edition of Hyperides, thus alludes in 1853 to his two recent pupils, Lane and Gilder-sleeve: 'Vivorum juverum et candore animi praecellentium et ad ornandas in illo orbe litteras antiquitatis vatorum." Many interesting traditions, some of them...
...Fullerton '86, has an article in the September number of the Nineteenth Century on Bion of Smyrna...
...freshman electrified the class the other day by gravely declaring that Smyrna was "one of the birthplaces of Homer...
Harold Warren, formerly special student in the art department, sails for Smyrna this week, to make studies of that island. Mr. Warren has already earned a reputation as a fine colorist and a brilliant future is predicted...