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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place. The old temple was burned in 548. No one knows how long it had been built nor exactly how it was constructed. Only a single chamber, the one containing the oracle, was saved from the fire and this was built into the new temple. Apollo was the chief deity but there are some proofs that Bacchus was worshiped there before Apollo. People of all nations worshiped at the shrine and so many presents were given that in the time of Pliny, after Delphi had been plundered many times, there remained three thousand. The excavations so far have revealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Lawton's Lecture. | 10/23/1889 | See Source »

...next year will start out on an independent basis. They have already made arrangements for a Christmas trip, when they will visit several southern cities. The trip will be made in a special Pullman car, now in progress of construction for them. The car will be named the "Apollo" and will be fitted up in Yale blue. The clubs have already received letters from several of the cities they intend to visit assuring them of a warm reception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Apollo Glee and Banjo Clubs. | 6/10/1889 | See Source »

...trip of the Yale Apollo Glee club was the most extended one yet taken by that organization, concerts being given in Charleston, Atlanta and Savannah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 5/8/1889 | See Source »

...Yale Apollo Glee and Banjo clubs met with success on their Easter trip. Twenty-five men left New York Thursday afternoon on the steamer "City of Augusta." and arrived at Savannah on Saturday night where they put up at the Pulaski House. On Sunday and Monday, the members of the clubs were taken to drive about the city, and at 5 p. m. Monday were given a reception at the home of Mr. William Gordon, '86 S. In the evening a concert was given in the Opera House before an audience numbering more than a thousand. On Tuesday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Easter Trip of the Yale Apollo Club. | 5/2/1889 | See Source »

...paramour. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then a child, had been rescued from the clutches of his father's murderers by his sister Electra, and sent into Phocis. Eight years later he returns to take vengeance for his father's death, and by the aid of the god Apollo, succeeds in his purpose and leaves the guilty pair dead at their own door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Greek Play "Electra." | 4/26/1889 | See Source »

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