Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oberlin. And, as for the other sins the Review lays at our door-sectional prejudice, lack of candidness, disingenuousness, and what not-we utterly repudiate any intent of harboring such qualities. We have the highest appreciation for Western energy and intellectual vigor. More and more every year this ancient mother of learning is receiving into her veins new and fresh currents of the warm blood of the West. Let not the Review imagine that, on the other hand, the world of intellectual vigor is bounded on the East by the Hudson-that it has any boundary in fact...
...American Archaeology." Special subject: "Ancient Peruvian Art;" concluding with a review of the several American races. Professor Putnam. Peabody Museum, 3 P. M. (Last lecture.) On account of the limited room for the number attending the Thursday lectures, the same lecture will be given on Saturdays...
Members of Fine Arts 3 are advised to obtain photographic charts of Ancient Athens...
Subjects for future lectures by the curator at the Peabody Museum are March 23d, "South America;" 30th, "Ancient Peruvian...
...theological faculties. English universities are self-governed, except London and Manchester, which are controlled respectively by a senate (named by the Crown) and by a board of trustees. The constitutions of Oxford and Cambridge are very complicated and are understood by nobody outside the universities and by few inside. Ancient usage, modern acts of parliament, and their own legislation have all gone to the making of them. These university governments have two modern assemblies, called in Oxford "Convocation" (made up of alumni having degrees) and "Congregation" (made up of graduates resident in the university town). These latter appoint the university...