Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...topic, and works to exhaust it. When his topic has become exhausted, the knowledge of experience becomes essential; he can tell from the scale of fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise of comparative history, comparative art, religion, philology, jurisprudence, etc. In philosophy also the German has done noble work; he treats it psychologically...
Several of the specimens were sent to Professor Frederick W. Putnam, curator of the Peabody Museum of Archeology, and during the summer he made observations and formed plans to make a regular search this fall. The work was begun a few days ago and Thursday one skeleton was found, in the back-bone of which an arrow head was imbedded two third of an inch. Friday another was discovered and Saturday six were unearthed, of which five were in one group. The five were apparently a warrior, his squaw and three papooses. Near by there was found a portion...
...Iliad. The episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases the two are represented as conquerors of mankind, and are therefore clothed as warriors, but this type soon...
...monks and their merry Abbot are disturbed in their carousals by noises issuing from the grave, and they find that the slab bas fallen from its place and the grave is empty. Later in the evening when the orgy is over, the Abbot on entering his room, finds a skeleton stranger who says he is the man buried so long ago. He claims to have been buried alive, describes his feelings in the grave and the sensation of being devoured by the worms, and finally accuses the Abbot of being the cause of his woes. As be ceases to speak...
Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State...