Word: writings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...
...enough to draw the public in the very competent hands of Miss Kalisch would have been ludicrous if Miss Marlowe had acted it-and would probably have drawn a little better. But if we are brave enough and perhaps optimistic enough to admit that an American can write good verse, "Sappho and Phaon" will stand on many a book shelf and will be read as one reads Stephen Phillips. Indeed, there is more reason why it should be read. The verse has often more strength and is often equally lyrical. Many of the passages which would be merely tiresome...
Professor Bury first spoke on "The Influence of Greek Art on Roman History." Cato was the first Latin historian whose national feelings inspired him to write in Latin. Sallust and Livy followed his example, although the real change was only in the medium of expression. Tacitus, who succeeded these men in Roman historiography, resembled Sallust, but greatly excelled Livy both in narration and rhetoric, though he constantly sacrificed facts to style. The Christianizing movement, he said in concluding this subject, compressed history into a new framework and gave it an entirely different perspective...
...that go to other universities, that a boy in a Western preparatory school can get very little accurate information in regard to life here. Whatever information he gets is apt to be misrepresented by some friend who is trying to persuade him to go to another university. The boy writes for a Harvard Catalogue, and in it he finds much about entrance examinations, choice of courses, and dormitories owned by the University; and little or nothing about student activities, athletics, and private dormitories. With all of these points in respect to other colleges, he is well acquainted. He has never...
...years past has toured the United States and been active at Washington in the interests of the "International Association for the Study of the Upper Congo" made and appeal to those present to join the association and urge their friends to do so, and to write personal letters on this subject to President Roosevelt...