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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discovery and subse quent excavation is due to the Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan employed in all Greek theatres; the seats rose in semi-circular tiers from the orchestra as a converging point, and at the back of the orchestra, facing the seats was the building set apart for the actors. The dimensions of the theatre were very large; it would doubtless accomodate the whole body of Athenian citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor J. W. White's Lecture. | 4/16/1889 | See Source »

...will within a few days turn out to the '91 crew a cedar shell, which he is building for them This fact would not be of particular importance, were it not that on the success or failure of this boat depends whether or not the 'varsity crew will go back to a cedar shell in stead of a paper shell which kind they have been using for several years. The boat has been built with great care and will have more than ordinary buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest, it being a new departure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '91 Cedar Shell. | 4/16/1889 | See Source »

While our nine has been hard at work in the field getting ready for the championship struggle, the crews have not been idle. All of them have now settled down to serious work in anticipation of their coming races. Several old men have come back, and from three o'clock until dark the boat house presents an animated appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crews. | 4/11/1889 | See Source »

...account of the new regulations in regard to registering, this morning will see all of the students back in Cambridge. Today is the beginning of the last and shortest term of the year, a term that is by far the pleasantest as well as the most filled with hard work, both in study and athletics. This season is especially the athletic season of the year. It is the time when the real work of the year must be done, the faults of the winter and spring corrected, when every effort must be made to wrest victory from our rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/10/1889 | See Source »

...this country. To shut out immigration by further legislation would be against the principles of our nation. The civil evils caused by immigration are merely the "measles and the mumps', of our infant country, and must not be taken into consideration if we remember that immigrants have proven the back bone of our country, and that they have made our country what it is. Let immigrants come to America if they want to, and let them do for the Westwhat they have done for the East. Mr. C. C. Ramsay, so. second on the affirmative, said that mob-violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 3/29/1889 | See Source »

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