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Clark university is the first institution in this country to establish the title of docent, which is its highest annual appointment. It is primarily intended as an honor to be awarded to those worthy of more prominent and lucrative positions as professors or assistant professors in colleges. It may be bestowed without examination upon a few men who have advanced beyond the requirements of a doctorate and who satisfy the requirements of the university by a thesis a public address, or in any other way, of both their scientific attainments and their teaching abilities, and, if necessary, may be accompanied...
...architectural merit. The debris has been cleared away from the theatre, and the stage structure thus revealed has led to a revolution in our ideas as to the manner of the production of a Greek play. Many sculptures have been found of over average merit, though none of the highest. But most important has been the harvest of interesting inscriptions. One inscription gives the account of the building of the temple, another is a hymn to Asklepios, and still others record remarkable cures experienced by his favor. Temples of Asklepois on the side of the Acropolis in Athens...
Lessing's life had neither the romance of Schiller's, nor the charm of Goethe's. It was one long struggle against poverty, in an age when people had not come to understand that literature was a profession worthy of the highest type of man. Manliness and a love of truth without regard to established authority were the salient points in Lessing's character. He was primarily a critic, but he supplemented his precepts by example, and accomplished as much by his character as by his intellect...
...chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic of this epoch as is the Elder Edda of the first...
...Hodges, '83 has been appointed master of Latin at the Belmont School, Belmout, Mass. He took highest honors on classics while in college...