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...displayed during the period during which it is held, will be duly considered. The examinations will take place at any college which the candidate chooses among the number of institutions which help to support this school. Upon the following subjects will be based the main part of the examinations: Modern Greek, The Elements of Greek Epigraphy, Introduction to Greek Archeology, Greek Architecture, Sculpture and Vases, Pausanias, and the Monuments and Typography of Ancient Athens...
...call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered so much from outside changes as English. The effects of the language of the Franks on French were not so deep and lasting as those of French on English. The name Romance, often...
From appearances the men are in the best of physical condition. They have been trained since early in August on the old-style method, and the so called "modern" method certainly shows up at a disadvantage when the physical condition of the Harvard and Michigan teams is compared...
...There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin," and a special Olympic hymn by a modern Greek composer is to be sung by a monster chorus. A great attendance by athletes and scholars from all the world is expected...
...love's utter obedience, which had been originally developed in Provence, and with his contemporaries of note spread on all sides from Trois the powerful influence of the Provencal moral ideals. Trois became the centre of that social discussion and imaginative production, which brought about the transition to the modern ideals of society standing in such sharp contrast to those in vogue before the period of the Middle Ages...