SHORT PAPERS, OR THEMES. [These should be written in a clear, plain, and business-like style, without any attempt at the expression of feeling or fancy.] Ex. 1.-ABBEY. 1. A kind of religious house superior to a monastery. 2. First established in Egypt, under the title of monasteries, in the 4th century. 3. First erected in the Isle of Bardsey at the end of the 5th century. 4. First in Scotland at Iona, in 565. 5. First in Ireland, about 520. 6. 186 greater monasteries suppressed, in Henry VIII.'s time. 7. Their lands divided among five noble families. 8. Abbot, head of an abbey. 9. Sometimes a prince of the blood-royal. 10. Use of term began in 472. 11. Once twentysix abbots in England. 12. Two priors also, with seats in parliament. 13. Their croziers were carried in their right hand. 14. Bishops carried theirs in their left. 15. Different kinds of abbots. 16. Abbots ruling over branches of the same order were called cardinal-abbots. 17. On the continent there were prince-abbots, field-abbots, and abbot-counts. Ex. 2.-ACADEMY. 1. Name derived from a grove at Athens used as a gymnastic school, whose owner was called Academus. 2. Cimon, son of Miltiades, the Peabody of his time, bought and converted it into a public park, adorned with groves, fountains, and statues. 3. Socrates is said to have taught here; then Plato, whose school was formed here about 2260 years ago (B.c. 388). 4. He presided here for nearly half a century. 5. Followers of Plato hence called Academics. 6. This school flourished under different masters, with more or less success, for nearly 600 years. 7. Our word academy derived from this term. 8. Name in the modern sense first used |