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...Harvard team came on the field at 2 o'clock amid great enthusiasm, and the Yale team followed immediately and was well received. Harvard won the toss and faced the east goal...
...Edward Robinson, Curator of Classical Antiquities in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, delivered the first lecture in his course on Greek Art in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The lecturer took up and carefully outlined the social, religious and intellectual conditions amid which the Greeks lived, and which tended to foster and develop the spirit...
...distinct idealization. Juno-the protector of the family-was conceived to be beautiful and severe; Venus was gentleness itself; Diana's nature was wild, untamed. It was to these ideal conceptions that the Greek sculptors were called upon to give worthy physical form. With such high ideals, and amid such favorable conditions, it is but natural that the Greeks should have become the greatest exponents of art whom the world has known...
...interpret it. He said once, laughingly, that we called the Romans ancient, but when they were alive they thought themselves as modern as anybody there was. If he was discussing the etymology of words, he had no fine spun theories, but considered always how the minds of the people amid their surroundings worked in their habitual thought to make words...
...instance of the blood-thirstiness objected to is supplied by the following sentence quoted from the longest article, entitled "The Flagellants." "Every day thereafter, the victim's bloody back burned up in red hell-fire before the tormentor's wild eyes: divine threats of damnation echoed through the silence; amid the awful glare two gaunt figures writhed,- the one upon the floor, his eyes starting out in agony, the other in the air, his eyes swelling with glutted revenge...