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...Mycenaean Age as it now begins to detach itself from the darkness of the "Bronze Age" is the first efflorescence of the Western, as distinguished from the Eastern genius for civilization and the arts. The Mycenaean Age intimately concerns us, if we wish to do full justice to the traditions of culture handed down to us by our forefathers. This age was an early phase of modern civilization and in all respects was far more advanced than the period of the Greek Middle Ages, 1000-700 B. C. which came immediately after it. The Mycenaeans themselves had a long past...
Besides the many discoveries in Crete in art and workmanship, Mr. Arthur Evans has brought new light on the origin of our alphabet, thus making it more western and Mycenaean in its source than has been commonly supposed. In religion also, much has been shown from the recent discoveries in Crete...
...Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world, but were organized and developed in that very region itself. This culture then and its initial stages, called the "Amorgan period" because this civilization...
Professor Dyer is a graduate both of Harvard and Oxford, and was formerly Assistant Professor of Greek at Harvard. Of recent years he has been studying at the University of Oxford, and has been actively connected with the recent research in primitive Greek Art, especially in that of the Mycenaean Period...
...official registration figures at Yale as given in the catalogue just issued, are as follows. The figures show an increase of 25 students over the total membership last year. 1900. 1901. Graduate School, 283 304 Academic Department, 1224 1170 Scientific Department, 571 610 Art School, 90 75 Department of Music, 107 126 Divinity School, 100 89 Medical School, 135 133 Law School, 195 213 School of Forestry, 7 2705 2747 Deduct names inserted twice...