Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...invests the present discovery with peculiar value and intere St. The document containing the signature has not passed into the domain of antiquarian curiosity; it has not been picked up for an old song, to be resold for a large sum at a literary auction; nor have we to trace its history from one person to another, as best we can, during a period of two centuries and a half, because it is to day in the same custody to which it was committed the moment the ink was dry from the pens of the brothers Harvard...
...very interesting and valuable pamphlet on the "The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities" has recently been published by the Burean of Education, at Washington. The main object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter...
...thin face and tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward the west is something good to see, and is typical of the college life to-day.- Henry C. Badger, in Magazine of American History for December...
...write a complete history of an act of Congress was, said Dr. Hart, impossible; he should attempt only to trace the outward life of the River and Harbor Bill of 1887, as an illustration of the methods of Congress and of financial legislation...
Throughout the whole complex body of phenomena that constitute the history of Greek sculpture we can trace a great underlying struggle to establish complete harmony between form and matter, between the subject and the language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence...