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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Monday, Nov. 25, The Sculptured Funeral Monuments of Ancient Athen (illustrated). Jefferson Physical Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 11/23/1889 | See Source »

...offering to Athena, rather than a place for her worship; the Erechtheum was the temple devoted to her worship. Nothing shows the veneration of the Athenians for the Parthenon better than its history, for it was never desecrated in any way until the disappearance of the chryselephantine statue of Athen. This statue disappeared about the middle of the fifth century, A. D.; at about the same time the temple came into the hands of the Christians and became a church. This necessitated some changes in the architecture. The entrance was changed to the west end, and the Hekatompedos became...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Wheeler's Fifth Lecture. | 3/2/1889 | See Source »

Accompanying a cut of a very astonishing figure of Father Time with his scythe and an animated clothes-dummy, the Athen&aeum appends this motto - "Western Granger to Snodkins of Harvard: 'So you be a collidge man. Wal, collidge was the makin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/2/1882 | See Source »

...ambitious, but succeeds in expressing the sensible spirit which has always distinguished its college. The Brunonian excels in editorials. They are pointed and well-written. The local and graduate departments of the Dartmouth comprise the greater part of the paper. It is successful as a newspaper. The Williams Athen&aeum contains all the departments of the ideal college paper, and all are good. More light articles would brighten it up. The Princetonian is earnest and gentlemanly. The Bowdoin Orient is weak in editorials, but full of news. The Oberlin Review has thoughtful editorials, and occasionally publishes excellent literary articles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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