Word: torso
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very interesting discussion regarding the Greek original of Meleager in the Fogg Museum, was concluded Saturday by investigation. The torso and head were found in 1895 near Rome close to the place where the Meleager now in the Berlin Museum was discovered, and the statue placed in the Museum some time ago. The members of the Fine Arts Department were not all agreed that the head originally belonged to the torso. There was a theory that the first head had been broken off and the present one carved at a later date to replace it. To settle the question...
...marbles are: The head and torso of a statue having the characteristics of the work of the 4th century B. C. A. Battle of Amazons. Three parts of a sarcophagus relief of later Greek workmanship, and a small Aphrodite head of good character...
...articles on universities and colleges of the United States. Professor G. Stanley Hall, who contributed the present article says, among other things: "Of our 139 self-styled universities, Professor Bryce thought that seven or eight or, at most, twelve, deserved the term, and Professor Von Holst finds only 'a torso of a university' in the whole country. At any rate we do not meet the demand, or 411 American students would not be found, as they were last year, in the nine Prussian universities...