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...bibliography of the various branches of Greek and Roman culture was taken up, particular attention being paid to the studies of philosophy, medicines, astronomy. grammar and inscriptions. The study of the two classes of inscriptions, sepulchral and dedicatory, was shown to be steadily growing in importance. The works on the Greek and Latin languages were then discussed and the lecturer stated that much greater attention had been given by the grammarians to the former than to the latter language...
...Horace and Virgil as the exponents of Roman patriotism and religion...
...Roman ideals of literary culture...
...walls of the upper rooms and corridor, an extensive collection of photographs representing works of art of all epochs and all countries-embracing architecture, sculpture and painting-is stored in cases, and is always accessible on application to the Curator's Assistant. The illustrations of Greek and Greco Roman art, of Mediaeval art, and of the arts of the Renaissance are practically exhaustive. Every facility for leisurely examination and note taking is afforded at all hours of the day and from 7 to 9 in the evening. So that a student may always find here abundant material for the study...
...finest forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown that the Roman architect Vitruvius was in the main right in deriving the Doric temple from structures in wood. Evidences for the theory were found in the ground plans of such buildings as the Megaron and in the palace at Mycenae and Tiryns, in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and also in Egyptian buildings...