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...Mechanical Analogues for Electromagnetic Systems"; one to R. C. Mullenix for an essay on "The Neurone Theory: Its Development and its Present Suits"; and one to E. A. Hecker for an essay on "The Progress of Humanitarianism in the first three centuries after Christ, as exhibited in the extant Greek and Latin Authors of that Period." First undergraduate prize of $250 to K. Costikyan '09 for an essay on "Cardinal Newman's Religion." Second undergraduate prize of $100 to P. Mariett '11 for an essay on "Skiamachia: A Study in Character" and one of $100 to be divided between...
...copy of the "Obsequies of John Kean," in which Milton's Lycidas first appeared. There is also a copy of the first printed collection of his poems, dated 1645. A copy of the second folio edition of Shakspere's works, which contains Milton's earliest printed work now extant, his lines on Shakspere has been loaned for the exhibit. The controversial tracts are represented by about 30 volumes. "Paradise Lost" is shown in a large number of editions beginning with two states of the first published...
...realized the importance and influence of the political institutions of a country. He takes for the starting point in his history the period of the three great wars, namely--Rome and Carthage, the Leagues in Greece, and Antiochus and Ptolemy. His forty books, of which five are completely extant, are the first books of universal, connected history, treated in a chronological order. As Thucydides was an artist, so was Polybius a teacher. The historical value of the writings of Polybius cannot be too highly valued because of their accuracy and impartiality...
...Department in the Stadium, June 16 and 19, have been held regularly since October. This tragedy is the first of the Oresteia, the three plays on the fortunes of the house of Atreus. Representing the highest achievement of Aeschylus and probably of all Greek drama, they form the only extant specimen of a trilogy...
...called Fairfax Murray (or Seddon) portrait of Chaucer, which, next to the illumination by this disciple Occleve in a manuscript of the early fifteenth century, is probably the best likeness of the poet in existence. Alongside it in the Museum has been placed a book describing all extant portraits of Chaucer, with a photographic reproduction of each...