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...write a complete history of an act of Congress was, said Dr. Hart, impossible; he should attempt only to trace the outward life of the River and Harbor Bill of 1887, as an illustration of the methods of Congress and of financial legislation...
...remnant of the "flogging" system of the English college may be trace n the custom that obliged freshmen to run on errands for their higher brethren. A freshman never thought of breaking this rule, for if he did refuse to obey the command of a superior his disobedience would meet with the direst consequences...
Throughout the whole complex body of phenomena that constitute the history of Greek sculpture we can trace a great underlying struggle to establish complete harmony between form and matter, between the subject and the language in which it is expressed, between the thought and the stone. In the remnants of the Archaic Period we are oppressed by a sense of the obtrusion of the material on our vision, to the detriment of the idea to be expressed. Again, in the Period of Decline, brilliant though this decline must be admitted to have been, we are oppressed by the presence...
...Sodality was founded in 1808, but we are only able to trace its history from 1832 on, as the records for the intervening period have disappeared most mysteriously. In those days "scarcely a sound but flutes was heard. From these the gentle murmurings or liquid trills rose from every side of the quadrangle the moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large...
...direct evidence can be found that Assyrian art was affected by, or itself affected the art of the Elamities, so little is known of the works of this people. Most scholars are agreed, however, that these two peoples did effect each other, though they are, as yet, unable to trace any influence of the art of the one in that of the other...