Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating as fast in morals. Every virtue was counterbalanced by some vice...
...still at work are: Catchers-J. Corbett '94, G. S. Henry '96, E. E. Clark '94, W. J. O'Malley '96, D. D. Scannell '97, A. A. Morton...
There are still a good many fairly good seats in the orchestra circle. These, with the boxes, will be sold at 8 Holworthy from 10 to 12 this morning, and from 2 to 4 this afternoon. All business connected with the tickets must be settled during these hours; at 4 o'clock the sale will positively end and nothing can be done about tickets after that time...
...question as to whether there was or was not a stage in the ancient Greek theatres is, he writes, still discussed in Athens. The head of the French school, Homolle, has proposed to attack Dr. Dorpfeld's theory as to the matter, in which case Professor White proposes to re-establish it in an open meeting of the American School. Among the interesting discoveries made in the recent excavations there, is one by Dr. Dorpfeld, who thinks that he has discovered the much discussed sanctuary of Dionysus in the Marshes, southwest of the Acropolis, a place where it has never...
...Yale debates are far preferable to one Yale and one Princeton debate. Intercollegiate debates are as yet in their infancy. They are just making themselves established as recognized and well-known institutions of the University. The policy of the debating societies ought to be such as to make them still better established. Now to make any sort of activity established as a university institution, two things are necessary,- first, the activity must be made of such a character as to merit general support, and, secondly, it must be conducted in practically the same way year after year, so that students...