Word: egyptian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Archaeology is the really romantic thing in this generation, now that war has been turned into a dismal science, and no, more strange countries--only wastes of Arctic snow--remain to be explored--The record of the latest discoveries of the Harvard Egyptian Expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward...
...dump heap that they were put by the Egyptian reconstructors of the temple after a destruction of it subsequent to 600 B. C. The Egyptians of that period, regarding themselves as moderns of the moderns, and certainly the most up-to-date thing then existing, had no respect whatever for the monuments of the Ethiopian period. Old rubbish to the dump. Ten great kings, each perhaps in his own way as great as Ozymandias, king of kings, were "scrapped" relentlessly by those moderns of long ago--scrapped in contemptuous fragments. Nothing more forever of Tirhaka the magnificent, of Tanut-Amon...
History of the formation and first efforts to systematize the mathematical and natural sciences in antiquity. Special attention is given to the study of the Babylonian and Egyptian, origins of Greek science. Lectures, reading and a thesis. Knowledge of Greek desirable but not essential...
Machine guns were first used in the Franco-Prussian War, but the English first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...
Educational Psychology, The Supervision of Teaching in Elementary Schools, Teaching in Secondary Schools: its Aims, Values, and Methods, English Composition (advanced course), Johnson, his Circle, and the Club, Egyptian Art, The History of Design, Second-year French, Elementary German, German Language and Literature, Analysis and Appreciation of Music, The Economic and Historical Geography of Greater Boston...