Word: ancestors
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...plot is based on the adventures of two young Americans, John Beacon Winton, of Boston, and James McGraw, of "Anywhere." In the prologue Winton boasts of his "Mayflower" descent. By means of a wishing stone, the two men are transported back to 1620 at Plymouth, and meet their own ancestors, face to face. Winston finds that his forefather, of whom he has been boasting, is a common porter and an "undesirable citizen." He is shocked, and attempts to make out his own destiny by disguising his ancestor and introducing him as the governor of a neighboring settlement; and then tries...
Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...
...formal opening of the new Faculty Room in Nassau Hall, the gift of the late S. Van Wickle, whose ancestor presented the property upon which Nassau Hall was built, was held on Friday afternoon. Dr. Henry Van Dyke delivered the opening prayer, after which Professor J. G. Hibben, in behalf of Mr. Van Wickle's family, presented the room to the University. President Wilson spoke briefly in acceptance, after which ex-President Cleveland delivered the address of the afternoon...
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous...
Semitic Conference. Ancestor-worship. Dr. H. H. Haynes. Sever...